Yum proxy?

[Arthur Pemberton]

Ed K. wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Is there any such thing as a yum proxy? And I don't mean setting up 
>> yum to work through a proxy. I'm hoping for a daemon through which 
>> the host and client connect, and which would in turn access the 
>> repos, so as to save band width.
>>
>> Does such exist?
>>
>
> Yes, its called squid. have a look at my yum repository. it properly 
> sets and uses the expires and if-modified-since http headers:
>
> http://www.edebris.com/fedora.redhat/mirror/
> http://www.edebris.com/fedora.us/mirror/
>
Yes I'm aware of squid. But how well would it work with ftp, and would 
squids caching cause problems? If not, then my question has been answered.

> ed
>