InstantMirror needs a rethink
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Sun Jan 27 21:55:23 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how to accomplish the same
thing for an anaconda install (kickstart or regular).
-dmc
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