tor, 10.03.2005 kl. 09.55 skrev seth vidal: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:14 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > > Here is my (draft) idea as to how to explore this further. The > > advantage of this approach is that it can work as a separate 3rd party > > add on software without any modification to the existing software. I > > have to confess I'm currently not very familiar with the inner > > workings of up2date, apt, yum etc, so maybe there are gotchas here I > > havn't thought about. > > Make sure you support byte-range requests. Yum uses http byte-range > requests to download the header of the rpms directly from the rpms on > the remote site. Most proxies can deal with that but it's just something > to be aware of. Can't yum use "file" style access to get the rpm's?
