[ILUG] Yum cache server?

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:47:17PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Conor Daly thought:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:39:34PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Thomas Pedoussaut thought:
> > Proinnsias Breathnach wrote:
> > >On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> > >  
> > >>currently run squid on that but I don't think it will cache big stuff like
> > >>rpm packages nor keep them around long enough.  I could run a yum mirror
> > >>but, AFAICT, this requires mirroring all packages while I just want to
> > >>mirror those packages that my update downloads.  There is yam but that
> > >>appears to mirror everything.
> > >>
> > >>Any thoughts?
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >
> > >Squid has a max object size parameter in the config files, make it big,
> > >50 to 100MB should cover most RPMs ?
> 
> So, two entries to modify:
> 
> maximum_object_size 102400 KB
> 
> refresh_pattern .rpm$           28800   60%     100800
> refresh_pattern .deb$           28800   60%     100800
> 
> and a bit of hacking on $http_proxy on the various machines...

Oh, and a modification of the max disk space parameter for cache_dir.
Given that it was set to 100Mb, a single object of max size would fill the
cache!...

cache_dir diskd /path/to/squid 1000 16 256 Q1=64 Q2=72

Conor
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