On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 01:09:37PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
I've just done two identical network installations of 11.4 after one another, and would have expected the second one to benefit from the fact that the first one had already retrieved everything required. However, according to squids logs, I had 61 hits and roughly 2500 misses. Not a single RPM was cached.
If you used download.openSUSE.org this might be the side effect of the download redirector (MirrorBrain). I would check the squid log for the same rpm (e.g. rpm-4.8.0-27.1). If MirrorBrain redirected to two different servers the http proxy can't know that the content is the same.
I'm guessing the issue is the metalink, but I haven't found any way of making squid work with the metalink.
Question: How do I get squid to cache the repo data during a network installation?
The only workaround I see at the moment is to use a particular mirror instead of download.openSUSE.org. Looks at all like a bug or better a missing feature to me. openFATE is eager to get your input. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany