InstantMirror Redesign / current best /simplest way to achieve

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to try InstantMirror, but was in a rush. I just used a basic
>> squid setup.
>>
>> Are their any advantages of using it as a reverse mirror vs. regular
>> squid usage?
>>
>
> Regular squid wont be able to effectively cache if MirrorManager is telling
> you to use random mirrors.  If you use MirrorManager you could receive the
> same local (reverse proxy) mirror as the first mirror every time if yum is
> used from your network block.
>
> refresh_pattern repodata/.*$    0       0%      0
> refresh_pattern .*rpm$    0     0%      0
>
> Also with any squid.conf you will need these lines in order to guarantee
> that your repodata and RPMS stay consistent with your upstream source. This
> is because proxies do not handle data changing without changing the
> filename.
>
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com


Ok thanks, what I did was comment out the mirror list url, and just
use the base url. I'll add those refresh patterns, but doesn't the
second one effectively turn of caching of *.rpm?


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