[Fwd: [Yum] success report -- YDL 3.0]

[Dan Burcaw]

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R P Herrold has documented his steps to setting up YUM
for YDL 3.0 via YDL.net Enhanced access.  YUM in my experience
can be more reliable and intelligent than apt-get for RPM.
(and like apt, it ships with YDL 3.0 by default)



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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:32:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Seth asked that I document my success with yum, as will ship 
with Yellow Dog Linux 3.0, in accessing subscription content, 
which requires a userid and password for FTP access.

First, my experimentation:

I set a .netrc file up, chmod 700. but it was not consulted by 
the python code in YUM.

So I went to embeded userid and passwd's in the URI

[herrold@dhcp-91 herrold]$ ncftp -u herrold \
	 ftp://herrold:PASSWORD@ftp.ydl.net
NcFTP 3.1.3 (Mar 27, 2002) by Mike Gleason (ncftp@ncftp.com).
Connecting to ftp.ydl.net(66.7.161.9)...
ProFTPD 1.2.5rc1 Server (yellowdoglinux.net) [callisto]
Logging in...
User herrold logged in.
Logged in to ftp.ydl.net.
Current remote directory is /.
ncftp / > ls
public_html/   yellowdog/
ncftp / > cd yellowdog/
ncftp /yellowdog/ > cd yum/
ncftp /yellowdog/yum > cd 3.0/
ncftp /yellowdog/yum/3.0 > ls
base/    update/
ncftp /yellowdog/yum/3.0 > cd base/
ncftp /yellowdog/yum/3.0/base > ls
headers/     RPMS.base@   SRPMS.base@
ncftp /yellowdog/yum/3.0/base > pwd
  ftp://herrold:PASSWORD@ftp.ydl.net/yellowdog/yum/3.0/base/
ncftp /yellowdog/yum/3.0/base >

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so, editting /etc/yum.conf

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

# [base]
# name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
# baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.main/

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
baseurl=http://herrold:PASSWORD@ftp.ydl.net/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/base/

# [updates]
# name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
# baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.updates/

[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
baseurl=ftp://herrold:PASSWORD@ftp.ydl.net/yellowdog/yum/3.0/update/

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because passwords are exposed -- if on a shared host, 
	chmod 700 /etc/yum.conf

I have commented out the as shipped YDL setup (which will open 
later this month) and added the needed parts for the private 
FTP server.   My password is not PASSWORD however ...

The YDL folks are worthy of subscription support however -- it
is amazing on my eMac ... http://www.ydl.net/enhanced.phtml

-- Russ Herrold

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