On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:41:26AM -0500, Les Mikesell enlightened us: > 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. There is, use a baseurl in your config file rather than the mirrorlist. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263