On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 09:47 -0600, Larry Dillon wrote: > 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=). this is probably the easiest one. really. > 3. Make a local mirrorlist, perhaps in conjunction with the failovermethod=priority setting. eh - not a whole lot of help - but does help you somewhat if you have a bad mirror. > 4. Some marvelously elegant solution that I have failed to consider. sorry, no such luck, that I can think of. -sv
