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2015 Oct 19
2
Can I force yum to only use http.
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> FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no
> apparent issues.
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> I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp
> installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum.
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If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum will not use it as it cannot. Is this the case? I had assumed that the
2015 Oct 20
0
Can I force yum to only use http.
On 10/19/2015 2:46 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum will not use it as it cannot. Is this the case? I had assumed that the code underlying yum had its own stack for dealing withftp://... urls.
no, thats quite wrong. yum uses libcurl, which is the guts of the
curl command, and curl accesses ftp:// url's without using the ftp command
configure your external gateway firewall to REJECT (not DROP) any
outbound ftp, and yum will quickly move onto other protocols.
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