Les Mikesell wrote:
Interesting, but it still requires custom setup for any distro/version
that the proxy admin would want to support. What I'd really like to
happen is for yum to just always prefer the same URL when working
through the same proxy so caching would work by default without needing
to be aware of the cache content. This would work automatically if the
target was a single site, RRDNS, or geo-ip managed DNS, but you probably
can't arrange that for all the repo mirrors. There has to be some clever
way to get the same effect even when using a mirrorlist - like making
sure the mirrorlist itself is cached and always picking the same entry
so any client will use the same URL that the mirrormanger gave to the
first one that made a request. Of course you'd need a reasonable retry
mechanism to pick something else if this choice fails but I'd guess it
would be a big win in bandwidth use and load on the mirrors if it worked
most of the time to take advantage of existing local caches with no
modifications.
I just thought of a simple but gross solution for you.
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
It sounds like you are using a transparent proxy. Just redirect
mirrors.fedoraproject.org to localhost at another port and serve files
so the mirrorlist URL's hand back a single mirror of your choosing.
Warren Togami
wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
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