On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Russel Winder <russel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 10:45 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > […] >> >> you can set a private Fedora mirror using squid, my old write up is >> at >> http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/2534.html (my server still works :-)) >> and I'm sure there were other guides too. > > People have mentioned "Just use Squid" in the past relating to this > sort of problem. When I found Approx on Debian I just set up to use > that, and stopped investigating Squid. When Fedora Rawhide used DRPMs I > didn't worry. Now an update is 350Mb or 1Gb, I have to worry. > > Part of my problem is I run an Apache2 instance on my server port 80, > so I'd have to find a workaround. Hence my thought of something approx > like which is really just a specialist stripped down Squid really, but > on a configurable port. The downside is changed APT sources.list, and > hence Yum *.repo files. For me, on Debian, this penalty is worth it. > > How does the Squid solution work for laptops which may be inside the > organisation boundary or outside it, I am guessing this means different > baseurls in all the *.repo files for the two cases. You can use a transparent if your gateway/firewall supports it or you can set the proxy options in dnf.conf (man dnf.conf for details) and then you don't need to adjust repo files. _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
