Ed K. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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.
You can only use squid if you use a http repository that properly uses
expires and if-modified-since, like the ones at edebris.com.
This is different then trying to mirror the yum repository at menioned
at:
http://www.fedoranews.org/alex/tutorial/yum/
It even talks about requiring 5G and I think that figure is low. The
mirror is now 25G for fedora.us and 16G for fedora.redhat without the
source RPMS.
I always make mention of using squid as a proxy and a properly
contructed http server in the hopes that more mirrors will copy, and
more installations will not require their own local copy of a yum
repository. I have 5 sites with fedora core 1/2/3 installations and
none have a local yum repository.
Maybe I should write an article for FedoraNEWS.org?
That's a good idea. Mailign lists are nice, but centralized information
can be helpful. You make a good point about file space usage which I did
not previously consider.
Thank you
ed
