> We use yum to provide automatic updates to our XOs in the field, and > we must be mindful that large RPMs can have an impact on the school's > Internet connection. If 400 XOs need to download a ~800KB Sugar RPM, > that's 320MB being downloaded, potentially at the same time.
Isn't there a cacheing yum proxy? Yes, it turns out: http://terrarum.net/administration/caching-rpms-with-pkg-cacher.html [Beware the install advice in that page. It tells you to set gpgcheck=0 to install their packages -- rather than telling you where to get a public key -- and it neglects to tell you to restore gpgcheck=1 after you install pkg-cacher.] Supposedly apt-cache can do it as well, though I don't see a step-by-step guide: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482949 Once one of your local machines is running the proxy, then you point each of the XOs to the proxy as well as to the standard RPM repos. I think yum is smart enough to download it from the first repo that offers it, which means that if your cache is responding, it'll download packages from there. (Warning: I haven't done this myself.) John _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel