Barry K. Nathan wrote:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:41:55PM -0400, William Hooper wrote:
I would trust a local mirror of updates.redhat.com and the "--packagedir" option for up2date more than I would trust a proxy cache.
I don't understand why a mirror should be more /trustworthy/ than a proxy server. Perhaps more secure in that you control when files get deleted, but /trust/?
... Or you can locally mirror updates.redhat.com and serve that out with Current (that's what I'm doing -- it lets me add custom packages of my own to the channel, too): http://current.tigris.org/
I used to mirror the updates site, but i found that it didn't save bandwidth, because so many packages were updated that i don't use. (Check out the package sizes the next time an emacs errata is released. :-)
Using a proxy server on my local LAN gives me the best savings in bandwidth (only the packages i actually use are downloaded), and is easier to manage, not to mention the fact that i use it anyway for my client PCs.