On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
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.
-- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, all using Gnome in case that's important to the thread.)
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Great, I knew that was a requested feature for yum , didn't realise that it had made it in.
Thank you.