Reository wisdom (not lookin' fer howtos)

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:44, ed at hp.uab.edu wrote:

> I know everyone wants to create their own local repository. But may I
> suggest a different approach. I have many clients with many computers, I
> wouldn't want to create a local repository for each client, so I created a
> single repository that when used with a proxy server acts like a local
> repository.

    Well, this isn't for me...this is for large corporations where it
makes a lot of sense to not swamp the main mirrors during the overnight.

> Have a look:
> http://www.edebris.com/fedora.redhat/mirror/
> http://www.edebris.com/fedora.us/mirror/

    Looks slick.

> If you configure all of your computers to use the same proxy server, then
> you will get the speed of a local yum repository, without configuring
> anything but the proxy server you should have anyway.
> 
> Note, that this work only because of the proper use of the expires and
> If-Modified-Since information sent with the files.

    I guess I'll just do whatever the main mirrors are doing; this isn't
a small project; and it needs to be done right.

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