diff --git a/yum/config.py b/yum/config.py
index 3e91735..5ff13a6 100644
--- a/yum/config.py
+++ b/yum/config.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ if not _use_iniparse:
 import rpmUtils.transaction
 import Errors
 import types
-from misc import get_uuid
+from misc import get_uuid, read_in_items_from_dot_dir
 
 # Alter/patch these to change the default checking...
 __pkgs_gpgcheck_default__ = False
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ class ListOption(Option):
         super(ListOption, self).__init__(default)
 
     def parse(self, s):
-        """Converts a string from the config file to a workable list
+        """Converts a string from the config file to a workable list, parses
+           globdir: paths as foo.d-style dirs
 
         Commas and spaces are used as separators for the list
         """
@@ -169,7 +170,15 @@ class ListOption(Option):
         # to sub the \n with a space and then read the lines
         s = s.replace('\n', ' ')
         s = s.replace(',', ' ')
-        return s.split()
+        results = []
+        for item in s.split():
+            if item.startswith('globdir:'):
+                globdir = item.replace('globdir:', '')
+                results.extend(read_in_items_from_dot_dir(globdir))
+                continue
+            results.append(item)
+
+        return results
 
     def tostring(self, value):
         return '\n '.join(value)
@@ -228,8 +237,15 @@ class UrlListOption(ListOption):
         s = s.replace('\n', ' ')
         s = s.replace(',', ' ')
         items = [ item.replace(' ', '%20') for item in shlex.split(s) ]
-        s = ' '.join(items)
-        for url in super(UrlListOption, self).parse(s):
+        tmp = []
+        for item in items:
+            if item.startswith('globdir:'):
+                globdir = item.replace('globdir:', '')
+                tmp.extend(read_in_items_from_dot_dir(globdir))
+                continue
+            tmp.append(item)
+
+        for url in super(UrlListOption, self).parse(' '.join(tmp)):
             out.append(self._urloption.parse(url))
         return out
 
diff --git a/yum/misc.py b/yum/misc.py
index faccf5f..ebce8e1 100644
--- a/yum/misc.py
+++ b/yum/misc.py
@@ -1005,4 +1005,27 @@ def decompress(filename):
     
     return out
     
-    
+def read_in_items_from_dot_dir(thisglob, line_as_list=True):
+    """takes a glob of a dir (like /etc/foo.d/*.foo)
+       returns a list of all the lines in all the files matching
+       that glob, ignores comments and blank lines,
+       optional paramater 'line_as_list tells whether to
+       treat each line as a space or comma-separated list, defaults to True"""
+    results = []
+    for fname in glob.glob(thisglob):
+        for line in open(fname):
+            if re.match('\s*(#|$)', line):
+                continue
+            line = line.rstrip() # no more trailing \n's
+            line = line.lstrip() # be nice
+            if not line:
+                continue
+            if line_as_list:
+                line = line.replace('\n', ' ')
+                line = line.replace(',', ' ')
+                results.extend(line.split())
+                continue
+            results.append(line)
+    return results
+
+