Caching proxy for yum package downloads

[quux]

Hi guys,

I'm looking for yum download proxy, i.e. a piece of software that transparently caches packages downloaded by yum and serves them on a local network to prevent multiple machines in the same network from downloading the same package over and over again. Basically what I'm looking for is a Fedora-equivalent of Debian's "approx" (http://packages.debian.org/etch/approx).

Does anyone of you know about such a tool?

Thanks!

[brr872002]

Originally Posted by quux

Hi guys,

I'm looking for yum download proxy, i.e. a piece of software that transparently caches packages downloaded by yum and serves them on a local network to prevent multiple machines in the same network from downloading the same package over and over again. Basically what I'm looking for is a Fedora-equivalent of Debian's "approx" (http://packages.debian.org/etch/approx).

Does anyone of you know about such a tool?

Thanks!

You can edit yum configuration to keep cache

gedit /etc/yum.conf
to keep cache =1
copy in local mechine and create local repos
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Creat...C6-43559.shtml

[quux]

Thanks, man! It should be quite simple to come up with a yum-wrapper script to automate the process.

[William Haller]

Also, you can investigate yum-pull (check Google).

The problem with just using the yum cache is that it will only keep the packages that your box has installed. If you are trying to mirror the repositories so that any machine on the network has access to any package including updates, I think yum-pull is a better bet. You can still restrict classes of packages by regex that you don't want to mirror at all. Until you get your regex's established, you may download packages that nobody needs, but at least they only come down once. Then you can simply switch all the boxes repos to point to the ftp server you set up with your own repositories.

[quux]

Hi William, thanks - I'll definitely have a look at this.