up2date in enterprise environment?

[William Hooper]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 07:17, John Summerfied wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Both would be taken care of by using a local yum repo.
>>>
>>
>> My personal favourite (and this assumes that the box with Internet
>> access has good Internet access) is to configure an Apache virtual host,
>>  maybe redhat.example.com, that proxies a convenient external mirror.
>
> Do you happen to have an example config for the apache host with
> reasonable settings for the cache parameters?   I've been using a squid
> proxy but find that it is currently barely useful because the update
> mirror target is chosen at random instead of matching what's already in
> the cache.

As I have said in the past, if you configure yum to use a single mirror
you will fix this problem with squid.  You will be reconfiguring yum to
use the single vhost if you choose to use apache anyway.

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William Hooper