[CentOS] Squid to Cache RPMs from yum (was: forcing yum ...)

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the default setup really goes out of its way to defeat any
>> standard caching proxies and make the mirrors do extra work, although
>> once you accumulate the copies from 5 or 6 sources everything will
>> work like you expect.  That used to bother me but now the mirrors seem
>> to be insanely fast so if your own connection is good it just doesn't
>> matter.
>>
>>
> Part of my problem is that my own connection is absolutely terrible.
>
> Anyway, I'll figure something out.  What I'll probably end up doing is
> taking my laptop home and rsycing a mirror to it, then taking it back into
> work and shooting that over to my server.
>
> Though just for giggles I'm going to try to get central IT to unblock rsync
> for me :-)
>

I think, after doing a 'yum --downloadonly update' you could rsync
wherever the packages land under /var/cache/yum to other machines that
will need them.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com