[CentOS] Squid +Yum = apt-cacher?

[Les Mikesell]

Lorenzo wrote:
>>>
>>> This used to 'just work' in Centos3 since the repos all had the same 
>>> name and used round robin dns to distribute the load and maybe it 
>>> does again in Centos5 - I thought I'd seen something about some work 
>>> being done.  But with Centos4 and the fedoras the mirrorlist would 
>>> usually give you something different every time and fill up the cache 
>>> with multiple copies.
>>
>> Yup, that's what happens with Fedora. Too many repos, the cache hit 
>> rate is pretty low.
>>
> 
> So again would be nice to "convince" someone (maybe already working with 
> Fedora) to make such tool (suggested name: yum-cacher; function: doing 
> for Fedora/CentOS/ any other RPM based distro the same thing that 
> apt-cacher does for debian)

I'd rather not have any tool-specific, distro-specific, or 
version-specific thing to set up.  Http caching has been well understood 
for ages and works with everything that doesn't go out of its way to 
break it.  There has to be some way to make yum work again without 
breaking it.

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   Les Mikesell
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