I've written a yum plugin to use Avahi to find proxy server's on a local network (see the attachment). The idea is that I do not have to configure a proxy server in the yum config, especially due to;
a) My laptop is used across many networks and I do not want to mess with the proxy config all the time. b) I do not always want to turn on the machine with the proxy server whenever I check for updates In particular I wrote this plugin when upgrading my various Fedora 8 machines to Fedora 9. I used http-replicator to cache all the rpm downloads and setup avahi to broadcast the proxy server address. Later, when large updates are available I can fire up my proxy and all the machines will use it, rather than eat into my download limit. Is this something you are interested in adding to the yum-utils package? Have I correctly used the yum api? Simon Goodall
yum-avahi-proxy.py
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