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Hi all,
I was wondering if would be possible to configure squid to co ope with yum so 
it recognize mirrors and it can cache rpm packages based on package name and 
maybe some other parameter to be sure that is the right package.
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Lorenzo
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Lorenzo Hi all, I was wondering if would be possible to configure squid to co ope with yum so it recognize...

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Matt Shields I know up2date can be configured to save all RPMs it installs/upgrades. Can yum be made to do the...

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Lorenzo Matt Shields ha scritto: Since I'm on a testing stage, installing, upgrading, and re-installing...

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Matt Shields If you are imaging servers over and over wouldn't it be easier to maintain a local repo and setup...

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Barry Brimer Have you looked at Cobbler <http://http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/> and mrepo?...

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Lorenzo Barry Brimer ha scritto: I've setup mrepo: as of now I have 1,4G of updates; usually on an average...

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Barry Brimer Quoting Lorenzo <lorenzo@gmk.it>: Have you set all of your systems to use your mrepo server for...

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Lorenzo Barry Brimer ha scritto: Not yet, and this is the second part of the problem: I don't like playing...

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Florin Andrei Why don't you create your own repo mirror? That's what I used to do, works pretty well. Just pick a...

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Lorenzo Florin Andrei ha scritto: See my other replay: again with few installations (around 10) this...

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Les Mikesell A proxy doesn't need to know anything about RPM's - it's like any other httpd request through a...

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Matt Martz You could do something like this: http://servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/22/1718242&tid=42 I...

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Lorenzo Les Mikesell ha scritto: Is there a way to tell squid that even if coming from different mirror it...

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Les Mikesell No, but squid has a hook for a redirector. If you did some work you might be able to force the...

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Florin Andrei Yup, that's what happens with Fedora. Too many repos, the cache hit rate is pretty low.

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Lorenzo Florin Andrei ha scritto: So again would be nice to "convince" someone (maybe already working with...

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Les Mikesell I'd rather not have any tool-specific, distro-specific, or version-specific thing to set up. Http...

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Matt Hyclak There is, use a baseurl in your config file rather than the mirrorlist. Matt

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Les Mikesell But that's a per-box per-repo specific change, with per-distro, per-repo variations for the end...

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Matt Hyclak You can't please everyone. I'd argue that the majority of people are not behind a proxy of any...

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Les Mikesell And I'd argue that the majority of Centos installations have more than one copy in locations that...

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Matt Hyclak I don't disagree, and if those folks have enough machines, I bet they're setting up local mirrors....

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Les Mikesell Its just one of those things that the best thing you can say about it is that it gives you job...

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Matt Shields Sigh!!!!! Why do people insist on doing things the hard way and insist on doing it over and over....

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Les Mikesell So you had to copy everything and set this up for every disto and version everyone at a location...

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William Hooper Have you seen this setup from Guru Labs?...

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Florin Andrei Oh, this is brilliant! It's like the classic local mirror scheme, with none of the disadvantages.

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Les Mikesell They are actually directing to a local repo which I'd like to avoid since I don't want to copy...

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Lorenzo Les Mikesell ha scritto: Just guessing... would be possible to use squidGuard (or another form of...

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