Tim wrote:
The annoying parts for me are that after finding the things I want, yum repeats the metadata download for every install step and goes out of its way to avoid allowing the site proxy cache from supplying it orthe rpms.It used to do that for me, but hasn't for a while.
I run many more copies of Centos than fedora - and there a bad design lives for 7 years.
It reparses what it's got, which isn't too quick, but doesn't refetch the data. Perhaps you want to play with caching tweaks in the yum.conf?
I'm not so concerned about caching on a single machine - I want a set of machines at the same location to always use the same url by default so a caching proxy server makes all but the first nearly instant. Centos 3.x got this right, subsequent versions don't.
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