[CentOS] Squid +Yum = apt-cacher?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri May 25 20:52:55 UTC 2007
William Hooper wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> [snip]
>> But that's a per-box per-repo specific change, with per-distro, per-repo
>> variations for the end users to figure out for themselves. And then it
>> won't fail over at all if the url you pick goes away. Aren't computers
>> supposed to work for you instead of the other way around?
>
> Have you seen this setup from Guru Labs?
> http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/YUM_automatic_local_mirror.php
>
> It sounds like it does what you want it to. It uses DNS to redirect
> requests for a mirror list to a page you control without changing the
> clients.
They are actually directing to a local repo which I'd like to avoid
since I don't want to copy anything unless at least one update requests
it, but I suppose similar contortions would work to force the same
external repo to be used. At least someone else recognizes the problem.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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