make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff at ollie.clive.ia.us> writes:
> 
> >> But `ftp://reader:xxxxxx@reader.local.net0:~/no_bak/fedraw
> >> used as baseurl in yum.conf fails:
> >
> > This is not a valid URL.  As you can see from the following example:
> >
> >         >>> import urlparse
> >         >>> urlparse.urlparse('ftp://reader:xxxxxx@reader.local.net0:~/no_bak/fedraw')
> >         ('ftp', 'reader:xxxxxx at reader.local.net0:~', '/no_bak/fedraw', '', '', '')
> >         
> > Python is interpreting the '~' as part of the hostname, not as part of the path.  Try using something like:
> >
> > ftp://reader:xxxxxx@reader.local.net0/home/no_bak/fedraw
> >
> > Note that you should use the full path and not the '~' expansion.
> 
> Ahh I see I've overlooked some stuff.  
> 
> Trying your formula a connection is made so I see now that the url
> scheme is supported by yum.  However I still get a failed to change
> dir ftp error.
> 
> In this scheme:
>  ftp://reader:xxxxx@reader.local.net0/home/reader/no_bak/fedraw
>   (password obfuscated for mailing)
> `fedraw' is actually a symlink to /mnt/pack/fedraw (Which is also 
> chowned reader:reader)
> 
> But I see from yum output that the address worked or at least the
> address was seen correctly:
> 
>    yum list updates
>   Yum Version: 2.1.3
>   COMMAND: yum list updates 
>   Installroot: /
>   Reading Local RPMDB
>   Setting up Repo:  development
>   Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://reader:xxxxx7@reader.local.net0/home/reader/no_bak/fedraw']
>   repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
>   Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: development
>   [...]
> 
> So I thought maybe it was because of the symlink
> But..
> This scheme:
>    ftp://reader:xxxxxx@reader.local.net0/mnt/pack/fedraw
> 
> Gets the same ftp error.
> 
>   yum list updates
>   Yum Version: 2.1.3
>   COMMAND: yum list updates 
>   Installroot: /
>   Reading Local RPMDB
>   Setting up Repo:  development
>   Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://reader:xxxxxx@reader.local.net0/mnt/pack/fedraw']
>   repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
>   Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: development
>   failure: repodata/repomd.xml from development: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to tr
> 
> I'm a little gun shy now calling this a yum problem.  Do you see
> further bumbling on my part?

To add another comment to this thread, it looks like you are using the devel version
of yum. Did you run the createrepo thing??

Tom