[rhn-users] proxying redhat updates

[Buchan Milne]

On Monday, 4 June 2007, Hiren Patel wrote:
> 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?

That's why there is:

useNoSSLForPackages[comment]=Use the noSSLServerURL for package, package list, 
and header fetching
useNoSSLForPackages=1

> 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.



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