Fedora 7

[Bill Nottingham]

Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
> 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.
> 
> I don't think something like that exists for yum. Or did I miss that?
> Debian has something similar iirc -- ohh boy, I should learn python
> properly and implement above proxy myself...

Well, you *could* just do this with any specially configured web cache.

Bill