Description of problem: 'man yum' says among other things: -c [config file] Specifies the config file location - can take http, ftp urls and local file paths. This indeed _was_ the case with yum in FC3 and FC4; at least for http. Today I had an opportunity to look at that in a situation when I controlled both communication ends and yum refused to recognize anything but local files. With every URL in a form http://.... or ftp://.... it was always "No such file or directory" even if they were there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.6.1-0.fc5
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190511 ***