On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 12:23 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Nice solution. > > But as a side note to that: I in fact had a local update mirror for Core > in the past, but with the Core and Extras merge I don't have one, as the > space and download requirements drastically increased. So much that > having a local mirror is not worth the trouble if you don't have more > then 10 (?) machines with Fedora afaics. So in this regard the merge > made things worse for me. > > What I'd like to have these days is a kind transparent apt-proxy ( > http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/ ) for yum, that keeps packages in a cache. > repotrack. it'll download the packages you want and all of the dependencies for those packages (recursively) to a local cache. or reposync which is like rsync for yum repos. > Sure, squid can help with that, but a more intelligent solution (package > still in the repo? only one ppc machine in the network, so don't cache > ppc download, ...; package part of standard-install, so keep in in the > cache if possible) could do a whole lot better. that intelligence is in the form of scripting, at some point there is a diminishing return on the scripting versus just downloading everything in a single swath. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
