Distribution sizes

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Oct 10 18:54:10 UTC 2013


On 10/10/2013 11:05 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:52:47AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I'd be nice to have a way to create a local caching "server" that's used
>> by local clients automatically. If a requested package isn't available,
>> the local server gets it from a remote mirror, the client gets the
>> package, yet then it's cached on the server for other clients. Something
>> that just works like this out of the box.
>
> Like this https://fedorahosted.org/intelligentmirror/
>
> Probably needs updating. One could also configure Squid or even Apache to
> effectively do the same thing without any additional software -- see for
> example http://website-security.info/linux_repository_proxy
>

FWIW - I still use the abandoned InstantMirror locally and still really like it.

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