Fedora 7

[Giandomenico De Tullio]

Rudi Chiarito ha scritto:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Even better would be the use of mDNS and DNS-SD to search for such a
> proxy. This way, you don't need to hardcode anything in configuration
> files.

FYI: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apt-zeroconf/


> Instead of a proxy, one could also use DNS-SD to implement something
> closer to the P2P model, where machines on a local network search for
> any neighbour systems that have already downloaded updates, basically
> sharing the yum cache.   
> 

 
 
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