Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell gmail com> wrote:On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com> wrote:Is there still no way to make yum default to behaving intelligently by itself in the presence of a caching proxy? All it really needs to do is use the same mirror as the last person chose so the URLs will match.How would it know?Well unless its a transparent proxy, yum.conf will have the proxy variable set.
Or you might have http_proxy set in the environment. Normally a proxy will add headers to the response - the hard part is knowing which server from a mirrorlist has the URL's already cached. If there is no way to compute a first choice based on a hash of something like the proxy server name from the header when you request the mirrorlist, it might be worth having a central server somewhere that could coordinate things. A quick database hit seems like a reasonable tradeoff for a huge reduction in mirror server bandwidth. Or an external server that could see the IP address of the proxy could pick a first choice from the mirrorlist based on that without storing anything.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell gmail com