Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 07:17, John Summerfied wrote: > >>> >>> Both would be taken care of by using a local yum repo. >>> >> >> My personal favourite (and this assumes that the box with Internet >> access has good Internet access) is to configure an Apache virtual host, >> maybe redhat.example.com, that proxies a convenient external mirror. > > Do you happen to have an example config for the apache host with > reasonable settings for the cache parameters? I've been using a squid > proxy but find that it is currently barely useful because the update > mirror target is chosen at random instead of matching what's already in > the cache. As I have said in the past, if you configure yum to use a single mirror you will fix this problem with squid. You will be reconfiguring yum to use the single vhost if you choose to use apache anyway. -- William Hooper
