[Yum] yum and squid

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 09:47 -0600, Larry Dillon wrote:
> 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=).

this is probably the easiest one. really.

> 3.  Make a local mirrorlist, perhaps in conjunction with the failovermethod=priority setting.

eh - not a whole lot of help - but does help you somewhat if you have a
bad mirror.

> 4.  Some marvelously elegant solution that I have failed to consider.

sorry, no such luck, that I can think of.

-sv