On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Wolfgang <woldra@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > >>> >> - not usable from arch installer. i assume i cant use it as proxy >>> >> setting what is asked in the installer. but maybe i can somehow else >>> >> use it from the installer? > > I'm doing something like this for a couple of centos machines... using > apache as a caching reverse proxy (also serving kickstart files). > > <VirtualHost *:80> > # the usual servername, logfile, etc... > LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so > LoadModule disk_cache_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_disk_cache.so > CacheRoot /home/sites/ks/cache > CacheEnable disk / > CacheDirLevels 2 > CacheDirLength 8 > CacheMaxFileSize 2097152000 > > ProxyRequests off > ProxyPass /centos/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/centos/ > </VirtualHost> > > it should just work with something like: > ProxyPass /archlinux/ http://some.mirror/path_to/archlinux/ > point your installers there and you should be fine > > I know you said squid is to much hassle... maybe your more comfortable > with apache ;) > > Regards, > Wolfgang sounds like a nice workaround. but does this cache the packages twice ? (apache cache and pacman cache)
