On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 00:50 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I would like to speed things up by hosting some form of mirroring on my Centos5 box.
I am thinking Squid, but not sure if that's the best solution.
Des anyone have success stories? Squid or otherwise? Ideally I could just set yum only to use a squid port, but yum doesn't seem to directly support proxies, just indirectly via ENV variables.
Looking at man yum.conf
proxy url to the proxy server that yum should use.
proxy_username username to use for proxy
proxy_password password for this proxy
I'm using 7 at the moment, see if Fedora 9 has the same options. If so, set each YUM to use your proxy, and always the same mirror (comment out the mirror list, set pick a specific baseurl URI.
This should work, we used to do the same with Windows to speed up Windows Update (cache through Squid), it made a huge difference.