InstantMirror needs a rethink
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 17:11:05 UTC 2008
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Am about to investigate on-demand style mirroring as opposed to
> rsync/ftp myself, and came across InstantMirror. What I have not yet
> been able to determine is what is the benefit of InstantMirror over
> just running squid and having yum always use said proxy?? (yum really
> should be able to independently use an http proxy)
Yum can/does use an http proxy if you either explicitly configure it or
export http_proxy=http://my_proxy:port in the environment. However the
default mirrorlist behavior will randomize the URLs so different
machines behind the proxy will make different requests that will be
cached but not reused. And an assortment of things can go wrong if repo
files are changed, but these problems could also happen in the time span
of a single update without a proxy.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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