Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:41:26AM -0500, Les Mikesell enlightened us:
Lorenzo wrote:
This used to 'just work' in Centos3 since the repos all had the same
name and used round robin dns to distribute the load and maybe it
does again in Centos5 - I thought I'd seen something about some work
being done. But with Centos4 and the fedoras the mirrorlist would
usually give you something different every time and fill up the cache
with multiple copies.
Yup, that's what happens with Fedora. Too many repos, the cache hit
rate is pretty low.
So again would be nice to "convince" someone (maybe already working with
Fedora) to make such tool (suggested name: yum-cacher; function: doing
for Fedora/CentOS/ any other RPM based distro the same thing that
apt-cacher does for debian)
I'd rather not have any tool-specific, distro-specific, or
version-specific thing to set up. Http caching has been well understood
for ages and works with everything that doesn't go out of its way to
break it. There has to be some way to make yum work again without
breaking it.
There is, use a baseurl in your config file rather than the mirrorlist.
But that's a per-box per-repo specific change, with per-distro, per-repo
variations for the end users to figure out for themselves. And then it
won't fail over at all if the url you pick goes away. Aren't computers
supposed to work for you instead of the other way around?
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Les Mikesell
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