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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080221/6f866298/attachment-0005.sig>