Yum, Proxy Cache Safety, Storage Backend

[chasd]

Alexander Bostr?m wrote:

> Wild idea:
>
> A yum plugin that short-circuits any downloading where the expected
> checksum of the data is known beforehand. It would first ask on the
> local network for the file, providing:
>
>       * The baseurl or mirrorlist url.
>       * The path relative to the root of the repo.
>       * The name of the file.
>       * The expected checksum.
>
> If no yum cache service is available on the network, no such  
> service has
> a suitable file or the request times out (a short timeout, 1 second
> perhaps), the plugin would fall back to the baseurl or mirrors as  
> usual.

That looks to me like an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network.
If you have a small network of machines and want to take advantage of  
caching, share the files yum has cached locally to other Fedora  
network nodes.

Sounds like a project for me, eh ?


Charles Dostale