[Yum-devel] Yum plugin using avahi to find a local proxy server

[Simon Goodall]

2008/8/18 Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com>:
> Simon Goodall wrote:
>>
>> I've written a yum plugin to use Avahi to find proxy server's on a
>> local network (see the attachment). The idea is that I do not have to
>> configure a proxy server in the yum config, especially due to;
>>
>> a) My laptop is used across many networks and I do not want to mess
>> with the proxy config all the time.
>> b) I do not always want to turn on the machine with the proxy server
>> whenever I check for updates
>>
>> In particular I wrote this plugin when upgrading my various Fedora 8
>> machines to Fedora 9. I used http-replicator to cache all the rpm
>> downloads and setup avahi to broadcast the proxy server address.
>> Later, when large updates are available I can fire up my proxy and all
>> the machines will use it, rather than eat into my download limit.
>>
>> Is this something you are interested in adding to the yum-utils package?
>>
>> Have I correctly used the yum api?
>>
>> Simon Goodall
>>
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> Look fine to me, the only issue i can see is, that it don't work with
> selinux.
>
> Tim

The problem is the current Fedora 9 (at least) SELinux polices block
access to avahi from yum. It should just be a case of allowing this in
the policy. I've not done much with SELinux so I am not sure what
needs to change.

Simon

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