[CentOS] yum-proxy?

[Lorenzo Quatrini]

Niki Kovacs ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using Debian for a few years, and there was one nifty little 
> app that made installing and updating so much easier: apt-proxy.
> 
> Most of the time, I'm taking care of small LANs with an average of five 
> client PCs. But this is a very remote place in South France, so most 
> villages only have 512 kbps DSL. One major update for openoffice.org-*, 
> and I have to wait the whole day for updating each machine (unless I scp 
> -r /var/cache/yum from machine to machine, but that's another story).
> 
> I'm currently testing an "intermediate" solution: creating a local Yum 
> repository. I have [base], which consists of all the 5.1 RPMS copied 
> over from the DVD. Then [updates], which I'm currently rsyncing from a 
> remote mirror. And I think I'll do something similar with [extra], which 
> only leaves [rpmforge] (but I won't cache that :oD). Not a very 
> satisfying solution, since for example I'm currently installing XFCE as 
> only desktop environment, and I have nevertheless to download every 
> GNOME- and KDE-related update.
> 
> A message to the developers: yum-proxy would be a much-needed addition 
> to Yum, in my humble opinion. I don't have the technical skills to 
> develop such a thing, but maybe one of you has (Daniel, do you read 
> this? :oD)
> 
> I'm curious about your comments on this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niki

I also need such a thing... I'm on the process to have a friend of mine write a 
patch to http-replicator so that it can work as a proxy for rpm files.

Stay tuned, shortly, I hope, I'll have some news.

Regards

Lorenzo Quatrini