You make some good points, but a couple of yours can be rebutted. Charles Curley: > * Related to the last, no simple caching software. The last I knew, > there was no RPM analog to the Debian apt-cacher. This caches deb > packages, so that, for all the machines that use it, a given package > is pulled in from the mirror only once, thereby reducing network > traffic, and greatly speeding updates on other clients of the > cache. For Fedora, I used an rsync script, but that meant I had > copies of entire repos, with massive redundancy of updated packages, > far more than I need. A simple RPM cache can be done. You simply use a HTTP caching proxy, like Squid, and configure all your computers to use the same mirror. Squid will cache anything dragged from it, and the next computer wanting the same RPM file will use your locally cached version. > * While I am glad to see the Fedora live CDs, they are klunky compared > to the Ubuntu/Knoppix/Finnix live CDs I have used. For one thing, on > shutdown those live CDs will eject the CD and wait for you to remove > them from the drive. You may not want the disc ejected. You might want it to stay in the drive, so the computer boots the live disc again, without anyone having to put the disc back in the drive. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
