[Yum] yum and squid

[Larry Dillon]

Dear Yum list:

I've search the 'net and haven't found a clear answer regarding the "best practices" regarding Squid.

We use yum to update a few different Linux distro's.
For FC4 and FC5, we have created local repos as many machines want the updates.
For less popular distro's, squid seems like a good idea (until I figured out that one gets a different, random mirror 
each time and all it really does is pollute the cache)

Obviously, minimal client configuration would be a plus.

It the best approach:

1.  Don't use squid, even though it puts extra burden on the mirrors.
2.  Edit every .repo definition to use one site (baseurl=).
3.  Make a local mirrorlist, perhaps in conjunction with the failovermethod=priority setting.
4.  Some marvelously elegant solution that I have failed to consider.

(Oh, please let it be #4)

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Larry Dillon
Desktop Support Manager
Rocky Mountain College
406.238.7360