On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 16:57 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Jan 27, 2008 2:11 PM, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Todd Zullinger escribió: > > > Martin Marques wrote: > > >> Is there something that will just do proxy with cache and not mirror > > >> sync? I mean, just download what you're installing or updating to > > >> get cached in disk, not the whole repo. > > >> > > >> Something like a proxy. :-D > > > > > > InstantMirror is intended to do this AFAIK. It was mentioned a few > > > times earlier in this thread. :) > > > > Sorry, I'm in vacation mode for another week. :-P > > > > I was reading in the -devel list some problems with InstantMirror. > > Didn't get to deep on it. > > > > > Another method (also mentioned) is to nfs share your /var/cache/yum > > > dir. > > > > IMHO, this is a crappy solution. > > Hmm... I beg to differ. I think the NFS export proposed above is the > simplest and most practical solution of all. > I would not think of any of the ideas presented here as the best, but > rather pick the one the suits your needs best. > > Really good to see all the really good ideas presented here. > > ~af > What happens if more than one computer runs update at the same time? It's not clear to me that Yum will understand what to do when 2 computers see the foo is out of date and try to download the same file to the same place at the same time...
