On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:03, William Warren wrote:
h'm not. I don't want to HAVE to reconfigure my clients..nor do i want to HAVE to add a proxy line into my yum.conf files. I actually do agree with les it should just work w/o having to screw around with config files.
What I actually do is add the proxy info to the command line so it is exported to yum - and I don't have a transparent proxy, I just do it to make all the machines use the same cache which I've configured to store large files. I update often enough that I can nearly always recall the command line from history with ^r3128 (the squid port). Or, I'll ssh to several machines and cut/paste the command line between windows.
Please don't accuse me of picking and choosing Bryan. It is not what i did at all. I chose to add the ftp lines to simply get things working again. it is not something that should have to be done at all. If i had more than 3-5 machine here i would fire up another one as a dedicated mirror.
But, if you had more machines, you'd probably be trying other distributions or versions on them.