Yum proxy?

Ed K. ed at hp.uab.edu
Fri Jan 28 00:50:39 UTC 2005


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Is there any such thing as a yum proxy? And I don't mean setting up yum to 
> work through a proxy. I'm hoping for a daemon through which the host and 
> client connect, and which would in turn access the repos, so as to save band 
> width.
>
> Does such exist?
>

Yes, its called squid. have a look at my yum repository. it properly sets 
and uses the expires and if-modified-since http headers:

http://www.edebris.com/fedora.redhat/mirror/
http://www.edebris.com/fedora.us/mirror/

ed




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