Yum, Proxy Cache Safety, Storage Backend

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:52:37AM -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> It sounds like you are using a transparent proxy.  Just redirect 
> mirrors.fedoraproject.org to localhost at another port and serve files 
> so the mirrorlist URL's hand back a single mirror of your choosing.

Actually thats another way to handle the caching problem with most proxies
and static content servers. If you get

	http://....../....static.file?random-16-digits

apache and most web servers will discard the query bits and the cache won't
be able to decide if the content is the same ;)