On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 00:50 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> I would like to speed things up by hosting some form of mirroring on >> my Centos5 box. >> >> I am thinking Squid, but not sure if that's the best solution. >> >> Des anyone have success stories? Squid or otherwise? Ideally I could >> just set yum only to use a squid port, but yum doesn't seem to >> directly support proxies, just indirectly via ENV variables. > > Looking at man yum.conf > > proxy url to the proxy server that yum should use. > > proxy_username > username to use for proxy > > proxy_password > password for this proxy > > I'm using 7 at the moment, see if Fedora 9 has the same options. If so, > set each YUM to use your proxy, and always the same mirror (comment out > the mirror list, set pick a specific baseurl URI. > > This should work, we used to do the same with Windows to speed up > Windows Update (cache through Squid), it made a huge difference. > > -- > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, all using Gnome > in case that's important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. Great, I knew that was a requested feature for yum , didn't realise that it had made it in. Thank you. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
