Yum proxy?

[Chris Stark]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Is there any such thing as a yum proxy? And I don't mean setting up yum 
> to work through a proxy. I'm hoping for a daemon through which the host 
> and client connect, and which would in turn access the repos, so as to 
> save band width.
> 
> Does such exist?
> 
I'll leave the details up to your googling abilities, but what you could 
do is one of these two ideas:

1. RSYNC

use rsync to keep a local mirror on one of your servers, then set up an 
alias in apache to serve your repo to your private network.

2. NFS

use nfs on a local server and redirect your yum cache on each machine to 
the nfs share. This way you only download what you need, and you only 
download once per package.

I use nfs because I'm only serving three machines at the moment. Rsync 
and a web server would probably be better if you have more machines and 
have multiple different package requirements.

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Chris Stark
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