Re: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:38:06AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> Or: Why I'm jumping ship to Ubuntu.

I'm sorry to see you go, but I'm glad there's a Linux distribution
that you feel still fits your needs.

> * 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.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/IntelligentMirror
which is a work in progress, but is intended to meet your needs and be
easily installable too.

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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