[Spacewalk-list] proxy issue - filelists.xml.gz corrupt?

[Tom Brown]

Hi

I have what is perhaps a useage issue although i dont see why what i
am going should be 'wrong'. On my spacewalk server i also have a
number of yum repo's and these provide various packages that are used
during the installation of a host and they are called from the
%packages of the kickstart so in other words cobbler knows of these
repos. When i have clients behind a spacewalk proxy they assume the
proxy is the yum server as they are defined as
http://@@server@@/yum/foo in the cobbler config, again this is wanted
as these repo's need to be cached, i operate sites that are some
distance apart, read thousands of miles.

Everything works just fine until _sometimes_ when the repo data on the
spacewalk server, aka the yum repo master if you will, is updated and
then a client installation behind a proxy can fail due to not being
able to find package X where that package is in one of the repos. If
it fails it will fail to find all packages in that repo. Is there any
way i can get the proxy to not cache the repo xml data or at least
drop it out of the cache often? If i stop the proxy, delete the squid
cache, recreate it and then try the install again it seems to work
again. Its a really annoying issue and i wonder if something like the
below will help

refresh_pattern  \.rpm$  10080 100% 525960 override-expire
override-lastmod ignore-reload reload-into-ims

if i were to change the .rpm to xml.gz ?? Any thoughts on this or
should i not be using the proxy to proxy and cache yum repos ?

thanks