Re: [ILUG] red carpet...

From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain cunniffe.net)
Date: Sun 02 Sep 2001 - 04:46:30 IST


kevin lyda wrote:

> has anyone tried red carpet? wow. very nice.

Yes. They've been doing a lot of work recently on RPM versioning, dependencies,
etc., and it's become a lot more stable and powerful now.

> i'm curious about it's caching features. if i have a network of machines,
> can they share a cache?

Yes, you just configure it to use a specific directory as a cache, which can
of course be remote-mounted. Can also be told to use proxies, firewalls,
username/passwords, etc.

Once any machine using the cache has successfully downloaded a specific file,
it will automatically be used locally should any other machine using that
cache request the same file.

Synchronisation can be done either through red-carpet itself, or simply by
using something like wget or rsync on a known remote Ximian mirror for the
relevant channels.

Regards,

Vin



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