Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (868 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joachim Schrod wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
> > I'm slightly surprised to nobody else has commented on this so far -
> > I
> > guess proxying is not overly popular amongst openSUSE users?  (that
> > it doesn't work might explain that of course :-) )
>
> I'd think "proxy support" means "you can install in the presence of
> a proxy", not "proxy caching of downloaded packages is supported".
>
> IIRC, that behavior is not new to 11.4. 

Correct, I don't think it's directly related to the version, it was
changed with the infrastructure at some point. 

> But it's a long time ago that I tried to use Squid to cache downloads,
> nowadays I share the zypp/cache directory via NFS.

Also for ad-hoc installations?  That is where I see the major advantage
with squid - zero management, zero changes, just plug in the NET CD/USB
and you can have installation at network speed. 


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Per Jessen, Zürich (22.6°C)

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