Re: Squid proxy setup for caching RPMs

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:29 AM Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:

>  On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 08:53 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  > Since I have >7 Fedora installations I setup a squid proxy server
>  > specifically for the purpose of reducing my download data since many
>  > of the same packages are going to get downloaded over and over again.
>  >
>  > I seem to be getting some hits (still looking for a GOOD squid
>  > analyzer!) but not as much as I would expect. I'm no regex expert but
>  > I tried to update the regex to pick up delta RPMS as well and may
>  > have made a mistake...
>
>  To use a caching proxy to help with yum/dnf/packagekit, you need to
>  ensure that those updaters always use the same repo mirror.  So you
>  need to configure your updater, first.
>  
I found some methods that use url rewriting but it's rather ugly...

One[1] suggested this:

\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/([0-9]+)\/Everything/x86_64\/(.*)$
http://repo.mirrors.squid.internal/fedora/releases/$1/$2
\/fedora\/linux\/updates\/([0-9]+)\/x86_64\/(.*)$
http://repo.mirrors.squid.internal/fedora/updates/$1/$2

There's got to be a proper and generic way of doing this. Keeping up with a
list of mirrors isn't sustainable.

I'd be willing to create a new project to try and come up with a package
that would automagically get this working but I'd need a lot of help...

Thanks,
Richard

[1]
https://serverfault.com/questions/837291/squid-and-caching-of-dnf-yum-dow...