Dear Yum list: I've search the 'net and haven't found a clear answer regarding the "best practices" regarding Squid. We use yum to update a few different Linux distro's. For FC4 and FC5, we have created local repos as many machines want the updates. For less popular distro's, squid seems like a good idea (until I figured out that one gets a different, random mirror each time and all it really does is pollute the cache) Obviously, minimal client configuration would be a plus. It the best approach: 1. Don't use squid, even though it puts extra burden on the mirrors. 2. Edit every .repo definition to use one site (baseurl=). 3. Make a local mirrorlist, perhaps in conjunction with the failovermethod=priority setting. 4. Some marvelously elegant solution that I have failed to consider. (Oh, please let it be #4) -- Larry Dillon Desktop Support Manager Rocky Mountain College 406.238.7360
