[Fedora-livecd-list] caching repository?

[Tim Wood]

Squid would probably do what I want... but it does seem like an elephant 
gun solution.  The InstantMirror discussion sounds like what I'm talking 
about.  I will check it out and see how well it works.

Tim



Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Tim Wood wrote:
>> I've been (finally) setting up a local Fedora 8 Repository.  In the 
>> process, I've discovered that os+updates+development now approaches 
>> 20G.  Given that a lot of that material is not relevant to me --at a 
>> guess 2G of the archive plus update and dev versions so 4-6G-- I 
>> realized a repository tool that only loaded things from an official 
>> repository when it was requested for the first time could be very 
>> useful.  Does anyone know of such a creature?  If not, would this be 
>> useful to anyone be sides me?
>
> squid?
>
> (hence question I asked about yum proxy configuration in anaconda a 
> while back, but don't think I ever got an answer to)
>
> And this (InstantMirror) was talked about on fedora-devel, but I 
> wasn't paying too much attention (looks like what you want).
>
> http://wtogami.livejournal.com/20405.html
>
>
> -dmc
>
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