On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 20:41 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 15:05:45 -0500, Harry Putnam
<reader(a)newsguy.com> wrote:
> That might work if the ftp server was a real IP on the internet but
> addresses like ftp://... don't seem to work inside my non resolvalbe
> lan.
>
> ftp will find reader.local.net0 but not ftp://reader.local.net0
>
> I wonder if there is a way to work a HERE document or something into
> the syntax?
Sounds like a limitation on urlgrabber that yum uses. This probably
needs to be filed as a bug so that it can be fixed so lookups from the
hosts file behave correctly.
umm urlgrabber definitely supports ftp urls.
more info on this would be appreciated in bugzilla.
-sv