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