[CentOS] Squid +Yum = apt-cacher?

[Matt Shields]

If you are imaging servers over and over wouldn't it be easier to
maintain a local repo and setup pxeboot with kickstart?

On 5/24/07, Lorenzo <lorenzo at gmk.it> wrote:
> Matt Shields ha scritto:
> > I know up2date can be configured to save all RPMs it
> > installs/upgrades.  Can yum be made to do the same.  If so, have 1
> > server connect to the mirrors, have it save all the rpms into a
> > directory, run createrepo every so often to update the directory, and
> > share out that directory with ftp or http so that your other servers
> > can download the packages.
> >
> > Or do like I do, have 1 server that you use for imaging all my servers
> > and mirror the CentOS repos, then I run Apache and have my local
> > servers connect to that local repo.  You don't even have to mirror the
> > entire repo if you don't want.
> >
> > -matt
> >
> Since I'm on a testing stage, installing, upgrading, and re-installing several
> times with slightly different setups and so on, I think the easiest way would
> be to only configure one proxy line on yum.conf on each new installation than
> playing each time with the .repo files on /etc/yum.repos.d or moving around
> RPMs between systems... after all what I need is a proxy-cache which knows how
> to handle RPMs: am I wrong?
>
> Lorenzo
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