On 12/19/06, Sharpe, Sam J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:07 -0600, inode0 wrote:
> Will Red Hat feed updates to your local yum repository? Or their
> packages at all? I guess I don't see why using local yum repos, which
> one can do now anyway, would make a proxy server less valuable?!
An RHN Proxy doesn't get fed. It's basically a squid cache that fetches
from RHN when a package is first requested, then serves from the cache
from then on.
It gets fed when it tells RHN it is hungry.
In an academic environment a proxy server has two huge benefits and
the hidden one is probably worth more than the more visible one. It
includes a site subscription for personal use machines for our users
as well as providing an update cache.
John
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