[rhn-users] proxying redhat updates

[Hiren Patel]

thanks for the reply.

when using up2date with ssl, does up2date not use ssl for everything,
including the download of the packages? would a standard proxy like
squid not relay ssl traffic from client to server without caching
anything?

i don't think i need to be caching rpms for kickstart installs, i have
media, run kickstart installs using that, then run updates using
up2date.

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:38 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Hiren Patel wrote:
> > would a standard proxy like squid cache update packages from redhat if a
> > machine was pointed to use it as a proxy? we currently use up2date with
> > SSL and i am therefore suspecting that the rpms themselves are getting
> > cached by the proxy, can anyone confirm this?
> 
> Yes, you can use normal proxy (like squid) to cache rpms. You can do it 
> by editing file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and change this options:
> enableProxy[comment]=Use a HTTP Proxy
> enableProxy=0
> enableProxyAuth[comment]=To use an authenticated proxy or not
> enableProxyAuth=0
> httpProxy[comment]=HTTP proxy in host:port format, e.g. 
> squid.redhat.com:3128
> httpProxy=
> 
> But normal proxy will not cache as much as RHN Proxy.
> E.g: When you use normal proxy, rpms during kickstart is not cached.
> 
-- 
Hiren Patel

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