[CentOS] yum-proxy?

[Johnny Hughes]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Lorenzo Quatrini wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> If you are in a location where a caching proxy is useful, wouldn't it be 
> nicer to configure a squid to cache large files and teach yum to behave 
> better in the presence of proxies (i.e. not use a mirrorlist or at least 
> always pick the same server as the first choice from the same location) 
> instead of having ad-hoc per-distribution per-version solutions that 
> won't be of any other use?
> 

Personally, if I was at such a location (where more that 1 or 2 machines 
needed updates), instead of trying to change anything, I would just 
rsync the branches of the centos tree I needed down to a web server and 
have a local mirror.

It takes 5 minutes to setup, and you can do new installs, updates, etc. 
going forward from the local mirror.

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