On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Lorenzo wrote:
James A. Peltier ha scritto:
Hi All,
Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the network and not hundreds of times.
If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS?
I asked the same thing some time ago, but I wasn't able to came with a solution. I set up a local mirror of updates with mrepo: is a waste of bandwidth (I am mirroring tons of apps I don't need, laguage packs and so on), but is the "best" solution I found. At this time I guess we should ask the people that develop yum: does anyone know how to get in touch with them?
Install squid, configure it so it only caches those files from a certain location or with a certain extension and then give it a large enough pool of diskspace so it can cache everything you require.
Then use that as a proxy for all your apt/yum depsolvers.
There is really not that much to it.