Ed K. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Is there any such thing as a yum proxy? And I don't mean setting up
yum to work through a proxy. I'm hoping for a daemon through which
the host and client connect, and which would in turn access the
repos, so as to save band width.
Does such exist?
Yes, its called squid. have a look at my yum repository. it properly
sets and uses the expires and if-modified-since http headers:
http://www.edebris.com/fedora.redhat/mirror/
http://www.edebris.com/fedora.us/mirror/
Yes I'm aware of squid. But how well would it work with ftp, and would
squids caching cause problems? If not, then my question has been answered.
ed
