Tim 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.
You can always export any variable on the command line like:
http_proxy=http://proxy.domain.com:port_number yum update
for example, to point to a squid configured to cache large files. The
problem is that the concept of changing the mirrorlist to a specific URI
doesn't work well for a set of people who maintain their own machines
and don't know/care what distribution/version others are using even
though they are in the same building behind the same proxy cache - and
it's not that great to have to edit files on every machine to get
reasonable behavior even if the people do manage to coordinate this.
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