On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Lorenzo wrote: > James A. Peltier ha scritto: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would like > > to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the network and not > > hundreds of times. > > > > If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the direction > > of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? > > > I asked the same thing some time ago, but I wasn't able to came with a > solution. > I set up a local mirror of updates with mrepo: is a waste of bandwidth (I am > mirroring tons of apps I don't need, laguage packs and so on), but is the > "best" solution I found. > At this time I guess we should ask the people that develop yum: does anyone > know how to get in touch with them? Install squid, configure it so it only caches those files from a certain location or with a certain extension and then give it a large enough pool of diskspace so it can cache everything you require. Then use that as a proxy for all your apt/yum depsolvers. There is really not that much to it. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]