#350: Add support for using file proxy -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: kparal | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future tasks Component: core | Keywords: -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Currently we allow to cache downloaded RPMs with allow_pkg_cache in autoqa.conf. That uses our own code in util.py:download().
Tim was talking about using file proxy and it now seems to me as a far better approach. It can cache more files (like yum metadata, ISO files, etc). The proxy can run on the same computer or on some local-network computer. Several computers can share the same proxy. We don't have to care about storing the files and cleaning up the directories. It means less code. It's transparent for us.
The task now is to play with some proxy, try whether it works, implement some support for AutoQA (if required), and document the process of setting it up (probably in [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Development here]).