[CentOS] Squid +Yum = apt-cacher?

Fri May 25 20:09:56 UTC 2007
William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at embarqmail.com>

Les Mikesell wrote:
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> 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.

-- 
William Hooper