Instant Mirror Status...?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Kulbir Saini
<kulbirsaini at students.iiit.ac.in> wrote:
> Hi Mikesell,
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 10:15 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I've become increasingly interested in a simple updates mirroring system
>>>> to proxy/store updates for a number of fedora machines on our network. I
>>>> searched google and found the instant mirror project, but it seemed somewhat
>>>> dead. Is it still alive? Did some other solution replace it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Take a look at intelligent mirror. A GSoC project by Kulbir Saini.
>>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/intelligentmirror/
>>
>> Is there still no way to make yum default to behaving intelligently by
>> itself in the presence of a caching proxy? All it really needs to do is use
>> the same mirror as the last person chose so the URLs will match.
>
>  I think its not possible. Especially in shared environments. For example in
> a university, machine A ran yum and downloaded foo.rpm via bar.com. Now if
> machine B runs yum to download the same foo.rpm, how will it know what
> mirror machine A used?

You make it sound like yum is incapable of persisting data. Can't it
just save the last used mirror?

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