On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
Well, my research into LDAP for authentication is showing GREAT benefits over NIS, and I have a third machine (for the home) installing upstairs as I type this. This one's delay due to a dirty CDROM, and I have to go 'hit' it once in a while. An FTP install would probably be more accurate, if the bandwidth is available.
I'm curious about repositories; since these could be massive groups of PCs (say, hundreds or thousands) it should make sense to maintain a separate repo (yum, presumably) on a server somewhere.
My question is, with all the questions about repo stability and such, what's the best way to go about it, strategically? I'm talking about whether I should find a local college to sync with, get it straight from fedora.us, or exactly what seems to go into making a nice, stable mirror?
I know everyone wants to create their own local repository. But may I suggest a different approach. I have many clients with many computers, I wouldn't want to create a local repository for each client, so I created a single repository that when used with a proxy server acts like a local repository.
Have a look: http://www.edebris.com/fedora.redhat/mirror/ http://www.edebris.com/fedora.us/mirror/
If you configure all of your computers to use the same proxy server, then you will get the speed of a local yum repository, without configuring anything but the proxy server you should have anyway.
Note, that this work only because of the proper use of the expires and If-Modified-Since information sent with the files.
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