VDQ : yum error under 4.0

[Chris Burnham]

I have mine working after a little work with this yum.conf. I did have a
typo with the "updates" directory - it was "update" which made it not
work. Good luck and if I can only get sound I will be happy

[main]

cachedir=/var/cache/yum

debuglevel=2

logfile=/var/log/yum.log

pkgpolicy=newest

[base]

name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Base

baseurl=ftp://username:password@ftp.ydl.net/enhanced/yum/4.0/base/

 

[updates]

name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Updates

baseurl=ftp://username:password@ftp.ydl.net/enhanced/yum/4.0/updates/

[extras]

name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Extras

baseurl=ftp://username:password@ftp.ydl.net/enhanced/yum/4.0/extras/





On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:28, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:38:00 -0500, Bill Fink wrote:
> 
> >> I checked the userid and password. I'm betting I failed to understand
> >> directions, somehow (They're pretty laconic.), and messed up my
> >> yum.conf
> > 
> > The error message indicates it doesn't like your username and password.
> > If you directly "ftp ftp.ydl.net" from the command line, and try to
> > login with that username and password, does it work?
> 
> I just tried. Sure enough, it does not work. I sent a note to ydl-support,
> after checking the id & pwd they sent me, which does work on the web site.
> 
> > And I assume you don't really have the '<' and '>' characters around
> > your username and password in your yum.conf file.
> 
> Right. But I wondered if maybe you're supposed to put their lines in as
> is, with "userid:password" instead of substituting. Seems crazy -- how
> would their machine ever get the real ones -- and I haven't tried it ...