On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 02:20:32PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/10/2014 02:09 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > >I am using web proxy on Synology NAS at home and all my Fedora machines > >use it for dnf/yum fetching. With on-disk cache set to 10GB it makes all > >system upgrades and mock builds very fast. > > > How does the proxy work with the various mirrors? Do you have > client side settings to deal with that? > > I wrote my own proxy in python that is specifically for yum and > matches filenames from any url. It's quite a hack and fails once in > a while, but it saves me a huge amount of time and bandwidth with > the large amount of Fedora computers I manage. I suppose I could > mirror the whole thing locally, but this way I only download the > packages I need as I need them.
This is definitely a thing which is needed. Also: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/half-baked-idea-content-addressable-web-proxy/#content Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
