caching packages on koji builder

[Oliver Falk]

Dan Horák wrote:
> Oliver Falk píše v St 05. 11. 2008 v 11:07 +0100:
>> Dan Horák wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> is it possible to somehow cache the packages that are going from koji
>>> hub to the builder to create a build root? There is no NFS connection
>>> between the builder and hub in s390's koji and so each build requires to
>>> download 100 MB via XMLRPC(?)
>> Newest kojis do not download via XMLRPC. Old kojis 'downloaded' via NFS.
>>
>>  > and this is slow. Will squid help here?
>>
>> Maybe...
>>
>> But with a GiB-Connection download of 100MB shouldn't be a problem.
>> Resolving dependencies, unpacking/writing files from packages to the 
>> buildroot should take longer, than the download....
> 
> But the hub and the builders are all at separate locations, so they are
> only connected via Internet and the lines are a bit slower :-)

Oh, that's bad. :-( Dunno if you can tell kojid/mock to use a proxy...

-of