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

[Styma, Robert E (Robert)]

> 
> FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no
> apparent issues.
> 
> 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.
> 

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 with ftp://... urls.

I will try this on a couple of machines.

Thank you,
Bob