InstantMirror needs a rethink

[Douglas McClendon]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 
>> Am about to investigate on-demand style mirroring as opposed to
>> rsync/ftp myself, and came across InstantMirror. What I have not yet
>> been able to determine is what is the benefit of InstantMirror over
>> just running squid and having yum always use said proxy?? (yum really
>> should be able to independently use an http proxy)
> 
> Yum can/does use an http proxy if you either explicitly configure it or 
> export http_proxy=http://my_proxy:port in the environment.  However the 
> default mirrorlist behavior will randomize the URLs so different 
> machines behind the proxy will make different requests that will be 
> cached but not reused.  And an assortment of things can go wrong if repo 
> files are changed, but these problems could also happen in the time span 
> of a single update without a proxy.

I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how to accomplish the same 
thing for an anaconda install (kickstart or regular).

-dmc