Re: Fedora 7

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

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