username/password for up2date

[Stephen Moore]

is it possible to use a username and password with up2date?

apt allows it

http://user:[e-mail]/pub/redhat/linux/raw...

up2date spits out a lot of python errors when i try this


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[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time at band camp Tue, 4 Nov 2003 4:46 am, Stephen Moore wrote:
>  is it possible to use a username and password with up2date?
>
>  apt allows it
>
>  http://user:[e-mail]/pub/redhat/linux/rawhi
> de/
>
>  up2date spits out a lot of python errors when i try this 
As much as i love and use planetmirror  i have found that they are about 2-3 
days behind on keeping rawhide synced.  i initially was using planetmirror 
and found  people in the list were refering to packages that are unavaliable 
to me yet.

Dennis

[Dan]

Two things here...

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

>  Once upon a time at band camp Tue, 4 Nov 2003 4:46 am, Stephen Moore
> wrote:
>  > is it possible to use a username and password with up2date?
>  >
>  > apt allows it
>  >
>  > http://user:[e-mail]/pub/redhat/linux/rawhi
>  >de/
>  >
>  > up2date spits out a lot of python errors when i try this 
I raised this with the yum developers and they have put username/password 
support in yum - I was hoping that up3date would carry these changes 
through, but evidentally it doesnt.

The specific errors Stephen is talkin about, up2date bawks at the ':', 
saying "passwd(a)premium-download.planetmirror.com" is not a valid port 
number. If you try FTP, it said that it can't find the host "user".

>  As much as i love and use planetmirror  i have found that they are
> about 2-3 
>  days behind on keeping rawhide synced.  i initially was using planetmirror 
>  and found  people in the list were refering to packages that are unavaliable 
>  to me yet. 
We have a regular update process that runs daily to fetch updates from 
rawhide. We are considering running it twice daily, depending on demand.

When the rawhide server was re-organised recently, we temporarily stopped 
our regular update (so that, if there were considerable problems, we 
wouldn't destroy our local copy of the rawhide stuff). We recently 
re-activated that, and it all seems to be up-to-date from our point of 
view.

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Regards,

Dan Goodes  :  Systems Programmer  :  dang(a)planetmirror.com

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