Fedora 7
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Jan 5 17:19:20 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
>
> The solution to people picking the wrong choice for their purpose is
> good documentation and guidance with tools where applicable. The only
> objection I heard to putting up a DVD is mirror space but we can avoid
> that problem by using a different name space so mirrors would have to
> pull it explicitly and in bittorrent. Considering that several
> distributions like Debian with large ISO sets has managed to get lots of
> mirrors, I dont think the problem of mirror space would affect us much.
> We should discuss this with mirror administrators rather than assuming
> its a problem.
What I'd like to see is some sort of yum-proxy to save bandwidth for
users. E.g. let some sort of yum-procy run on a local network server;
fill it's cache with what you have already from the distribution cd;
clients connect to the proxy; if the package is in the cache send it
back; otherwise download it from the web, send it over, and put it in
the cache; now and then check if a package is still in the upstream
repos; if not, drop it from the cache.
I don't think something like that exists for yum. Or did I miss that?
Debian has something similar iirc -- ohh boy, I should learn python
properly and implement above proxy myself...
CU
thl
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