William Warren wrote:
h'm not. I don't want to HAVE to reconfigure my clients..
How do you install your systems? How do you make system changes? How do you do any changes?
This is what I don't understand at all. This has nothing to do with YUM.
nor do i want to HAVE to add a proxy line into my yum.conf files.
But what do you do for system installation/customization? Do you use a Kickstart disk? Or do you manually install the system and manually configure? How do you make other changes to a system?
Again, this is what I don't understand at all. And it has nothing to do with YUM.
I actually do agree with les it should just work w/o having to screw around with config files.
Why not just do it when you install the system? I mean, I assume you're doing it then, correct? Or do your computers read your brain when you install?
Please don't accuse me of picking and choosing Bryan.
My point was you where clearly making an _inapplicable_ argument just because it fits.
There are countless configuration details that you do -- even if just once (like adding a proxy line to yum.conf). What makes this so different from any other install-time configuration detail?
It is not what i did at all. I chose to add the ftp lines to simply get things working again.
Then why couldn't you put in the proxy line instead? You only have to to do it once.
it is not something that should have to be done at all.
I'm still failing the point here. Transparent proxies do not work for a lot of things.
If i had more than 3-5 machine here i would fire up another one as a dedicated mirror.
And that's great. But even then, you'd have to change the repository configuration. So what's the issue?