Dag Wieers ha scritto: > 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. > I had troubles with this setup with corrupted metadata (or similar, I don't remember); also you have to disable the mirrors, otherwise squid would download the same file for each mirror. I agree that configuring local repos or squid could be of some help, but I don't think that there is a real solution, but just a work-around.