On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: >>> >>> 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? >> >> > > Not exactly. It checks with the source server on every request if the data > changed, but it doesn't re-download the entire thing. The only way we could > do this without checking the upstream source is if all filenames on the > mirrors changed every time their contents change. This is possible and we > considered this for repodata, but decided against it because it would have > broke earlier clients. This is also currently not possible with the RPMS > themselves. Hence the need for refresh_pattern rules. > > refresh_pattern images/.*$ 0 0% 0 > > I just realized that you probably want this additional rule to provide the > same guarantees for stage2.img and other stuff in that directory. > > Warren Togami > wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx > Okay thanks, I had apparently not completely understood how refresh patterns were used, I am clearer now. -- 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
