Private Mirror/Repository

[Tim]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:05 -0600, John Pierce wrote:
> I don't know how we got on the subject of proxy servers, in my
> previous post I said nothing about proxies, the configuration I use is
> only a cache of packages previously downloaded on the first update.
> 
> Look at my previous post, based on that configuration when I run yumu
> on ns1.local.net any packages that need to be updated will be
> downloaded and installed, for example kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.  When
> I move to the next machine ns2.local.net and run yumu and it sets
> kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 to be updated it will state downloading
> files, yum then realizes that the file already exists in the cache and
> the signatures match so it will not be downloaded just pulled from the
> cache.

Well, that is the sort of thing that caching proxies can do.  So using
one is a simple enough way to do the same trick.

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