On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> >> I wanted to try InstantMirror, but was in a rush. I just used a basic >> squid setup. >> >> Are their any advantages of using it as a reverse mirror vs. regular >> squid usage? >> > > Regular squid wont be able to effectively cache if MirrorManager is telling > you to use random mirrors. If you use MirrorManager you could receive the > same local (reverse proxy) mirror as the first mirror every time if yum is > used from your network block. > > refresh_pattern repodata/.*$ 0 0% 0 > refresh_pattern .*rpm$ 0 0% 0 > > Also with any squid.conf you will need these lines in order to guarantee > that your repodata and RPMS stay consistent with your upstream source. This > is because proxies do not handle data changing without changing the > filename. > > Warren Togami > wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx Ok thanks, what I did was comment out the mirror list url, and just use the base url. I'll add those refresh patterns, but doesn't the second one effectively turn of caching of *.rpm? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
