Replacing Apt with Yum.. SSH:// Support?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed May 25 22:51:18 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:31:18PM -0400, Leonard Isham wrote:
> Now with that said I wonder if you could alias ftp to sftp or maybe
> use "ln -s" and to create a symbolic link for sftp to use instead of
> ftp.  You would have to make sure that the symbolic link to sftp was
> used instead of standard ftp.

That won't work, since yum uses its own FTP routines rather than calling an
external binary.

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