Les Mikesell wrote:
Lorenzo Quatrini wrote:I've been using Debian for a few years, and there was one nifty little app that made installing and updating so much easier: apt-proxy.Most of the time, I'm taking care of small LANs with an average of five client PCs. But this is a very remote place in South France, so most villages only have 512 kbps DSL. One major update for openoffice.org-*, and I have to wait the whole day for updating each machine (unless I scp -r /var/cache/yum from machine to machine, but that's another story).I'm currently testing an "intermediate" solution: creating a local Yum repository. I have [base], which consists of all the 5.1 RPMS copied over from the DVD. Then [updates], which I'm currently rsyncing from a remote mirror. And I think I'll do something similar with [extra], which only leaves [rpmforge] (but I won't cache that :oD). Not a very satisfying solution, since for example I'm currently installing XFCE as only desktop environment, and I have nevertheless to download every GNOME- and KDE-related update.A message to the developers: yum-proxy would be a much-needed addition to Yum, in my humble opinion. I don't have the technical skills to develop such a thing, but maybe one of you has (Daniel, do you read this? :oD)I'm curious about your comments on this. Cheers, NikiI also need such a thing... I'm on the process to have a friend of mine write a patch to http-replicator so that it can work as a proxy for rpm files.Stay tuned, shortly, I hope, I'll have some news.If you are in a location where a caching proxy is useful, wouldn't it be nicer to configure a squid to cache large files and teach yum to behave better in the presence of proxies (i.e. not use a mirrorlist or at least always pick the same server as the first choice from the same location) instead of having ad-hoc per-distribution per-version solutions that won't be of any other use?
Personally, if I was at such a location (where more that 1 or 2 machines needed updates), instead of trying to change anything, I would just rsync the branches of the centos tree I needed down to a web server and have a local mirror.
It takes 5 minutes to setup, and you can do new installs, updates, etc. going forward from the local mirror.
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