Fedora 7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
>> The solution to people picking the wrong choice for their purpose is 
>> good documentation and guidance with tools where applicable. The only 
>> objection I heard to putting up a DVD is mirror space but we can avoid 
>> that problem by using a different name space so mirrors would have to 
>> pull it explicitly and in bittorrent. Considering that several 
>> distributions like Debian with large ISO sets has managed to get lots of 
>> mirrors, I dont think the problem of mirror space would affect us much. 
>> We should discuss this with mirror administrators rather than assuming 
>> its a problem.
> 
> What I'd like to see is some sort of yum-proxy to save bandwidth for
> users. E.g. let some sort of yum-procy run on a local network server;
> fill it's cache with what you have already from the distribution cd;
> clients connect to the proxy; if the package is in the cache send it
> back; otherwise download it from the web, send it over, and put it in
> the cache; now and then check if a package is still in the upstream
> repos; if not, drop it from the cache.
> 
> I don't think something like that exists for yum. Or did I miss that?
> Debian has something similar iirc -- ohh boy, I should learn python
> properly and implement above proxy myself...

Have you looked at mrepo? http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/

Rahul