Thank you for the quick replies, guys torsdagen den 5 januari 2012 21.49.47 skrev Maarten Vanraes: > Op donderdag 05 januari 2012 11:26:26 schreef Morgan Leijström:
>> Server is mga1 64 bit - can i install urpmi-proxy there, how? Unanswered question: I only found it packaged as for mga2 i586. Can i just install that package anyway on mga1 x86_64? > > I found > > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Urpmi-proxy > > Are there any more instructions somewhere? > > not yet, but if you can tell me what could be improved on documentation, > you can tell me. I will get back after having a go at using it :) Hopefully this weekend. > > I guess that on the client side i just remove all repos, then > > urpmi.addmedia --distrib http://my.local.server.IP/mageia/1/x86_64 > > yes, there is even a way to have the server use it itself. > > the trick here, is to specify in the /etc/urpmi-proxy.conf file the mirror > you'll be using manually, and then removing repos on the server and adding > sources from the urpmi-proxy on the server itself too... > > > Can i have urpmi-proxy proxy both x86_64 repos, and i586, for the > > different clients? And also cauldron for two (dual boot) clients? > > yes, it works for all mageia tree, stable, cauldron, x86_64 and i586 and > even SRPMS > > > On a side note, any tip what to use to proxy all http easily? > > And if possible all youtube; my children watch many times the same > > film... (But thanks to gcompris and other awesome educative games that > > use has decreased) > > squid is indeed good, for urpmi i still recommend urpmi-proxy, as it'll be > much nicer because it can tell exactly which is new and which is recent. So i will use both for the different purposes then. -- Morgan Leijström
