[CentOS] Re: Can I force yum to only use http.

[Yamaban]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 23:28, Roger Wells <roger.k.wells at ...> wrote:

> On 10/19/2015 05:12 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
>> Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls for outbound ftp.  I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum.  They are all CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7.  It is impractical to list all the possibilities since they change on a regular basis.  Also any 3rd party repos we need are another ball of wax.
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>> Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to avoid using ftp mirrors.  I have considered taking out the ftp-proxy information so that the ftp cannot get out, but I suspect it will just hang waiting for a response.
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>> Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to tell yum not to use ftp as the download mechanism?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Bob
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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.

AFAIK yum and its successor dnf uses "libcurl" for the transfer, which
has "curl" as cli.

curl and wget both can use the ftp:// protocol, so the (non-)presence
of "ftp" is not a deciding factor.

Setting up a proxy that gives a "404"/deny on ftp:// is more helpful here.

  - Yamaban.