[wellylug] Excluding FTP from Yum?

[Jonathan Harker]

David Harrison wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got some Centos 5.2 servers behind an FTP blocking firewall and  
> was wondering if there was a simple way to tell Yum not to use FTP  
> (i.e. only HTTP downloads)?
> 
> Googling hasn't turned up anything useful beyond turning the  
> connection timeout down, which in some cases will cause valid HTTP  
> connections to fail.

Use Debian? :-P