Yum, Proxy Cache Safety, Storage Backend

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Jan 24 08:22:47 UTC 2008


Le Jeu 24 janvier 2008 04:04, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:41:40 -0500
> Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:

> In fact, I just tried this by hand.  I edited repomd.xml and changed
> 'primary.sqlite.bz2' to 'primary-1234.sqlite.bz2' and then moved the
> file on the file system.  Yum client didn't even blink, it happily
> downloaded the -1234 file.
>
> So if this method is possible, does that change things for the better
> for you?

I made the same analysis several months ago when I setup my own local
mod_proxy cache. I'm glad to see Warren is getting through better than
me at the time. Changing file contents while keeping the same filename
is the ultimate proxy sin.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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