Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there still no way to make yum default to behaving intelligently by
itself in the presence of a caching proxy? All it really needs to do is use
the same mirror as the last person chose so the URLs will match.
How would it know?
Well unless its a transparent proxy, yum.conf will have the proxy variable set.
Or you might have http_proxy set in the environment. Normally a proxy
will add headers to the response - the hard part is knowing which server
from a mirrorlist has the URL's already cached. If there is no way to
compute a first choice based on a hash of something like the proxy
server name from the header when you request the mirrorlist, it might be
worth having a central server somewhere that could coordinate things. A
quick database hit seems like a reasonable tradeoff for a huge reduction
in mirror server bandwidth. Or an external server that could see the IP
address of the proxy could pick a first choice from the mirrorlist based
on that without storing anything.
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