Hi All, Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the network and not hundreds of times. If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com
James A. Peltier wrote:> Hi All, > > Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I > would like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to > the network and not hundreds of times. > > If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the > direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? >Hi you can create your own repository pointing yum on your CentOS machines to that. Createrepo is the main command you need
James A. Peltier ha scritto:> Hi All, > > Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would > like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the > network and not hundreds of times. > > If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the > direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? >I asked the same thing some time ago, but I wasn't able to came with a solution. I set up a local mirror of updates with mrepo: is a waste of bandwidth (I am mirroring tons of apps I don't need, laguage packs and so on), but is the "best" solution I found. At this time I guess we should ask the people that develop yum: does anyone know how to get in touch with them? Regards Lorenzo Quatrini
On 10/10/07, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca> wrote:> > Hi All, > > Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would > like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the > network and not hundreds of times. > > If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the > direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? > > -- > James A. Peltier > Technical Director, RHCE > SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus > Phone : 778-782-3610 > Fax : 778-782-3045 > Mobile : 778-840-6434 > E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca > Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca > MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >I dont know about apt-cacher, but if its something to do with apt-get you could you --download-only. Like apt-get upgrade --download-only Tronn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071010/d838396d/attachment-0004.html>
Tronn W?rdahl wrote:> > I dont know about apt-cacher, but if its something to do with apt-get > you could you --download-only. Like apt-get upgrade --download-only > > Tronn >apt-cacher allows you to point all clients to a centralized location, when one client performs, say and apt-get dist-upgrade, the apt-cache server caches all of the packages to it's local apt directory. It's very convienent and easy to setup, whereas the squid solution proposed by Dag is a fair bit more conviluted. A possible solution would be to possibly extend create-repo to add functionality to mirror updates and packages for selected architectures. Perhaps add the proxy/caching functionality that is required to perform these operations? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com
James A. Peltier wrote:> If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the > direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS?The Upstream have a Satellite program that provides local copies for their distribution/management network. Don't know if that is something that could be re-packaged? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.
James A. Peltier ha scritto:> Hi All, > > Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would > like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the > network and not hundreds of times. > > If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the > direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? >Hi, after a lot of googling and searching I think I've found something that looks really interesting: http://freshmeat.net/projects/http-replicator I'm testing it right now, it looks really promising. Regards Lorenzo Quatrini