caching in general (was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] caching repository?)

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Nottingham
Douglas McClendon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Tim Wood wrote: Thanks. That will work. InstantMirror does look more maintainable but has the downside (at v0.4) that it looks a little early to use as the basis of real work. Yes- I assumed --cache was so obvious, that you must have wanted

Re: caching in general (was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] caching repository?)

2008-01-16 Thread Tim Wood
InstantMirror (I suspect) has the advantage that it can be utilized anytime you're looking for rpms for livecd-creator, your local machine, etc. And, I suspect, by configuring it right, you can actually use it as a repo server for an entire network. They say they're working on creating a

Re: caching in general (was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] caching repository?)

2008-01-16 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:35:28 -0500 Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of, we already have: - livecd-creator --cache - /var/cache/pungi - /var/cache/yum/repository - InstantMirror Is there any work/thought on makeing these not duplicate each other so much? I've thought

Re: caching in general (was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] caching repository?)

2008-01-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 17:28 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: I've thought some about it. We don't want to stomp on the system /var/cache/yum, don't want to accidentally clear a cache when it shouldn't, or lock the system yum from doing anything while you're composing. I think it would be cool if