On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Wolfgang <woldra@fsfe.org> wrote:
Hi,
- not usable from arch installer. i assume i cant use it as proxy setting what is asked in the installer. but maybe i can somehow else use it from the installer?
I'm doing something like this for a couple of centos machines... using apache as a caching reverse proxy (also serving kickstart files).
<VirtualHost *:80> # the usual servername, logfile, etc... LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so LoadModule disk_cache_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_disk_cache.so CacheRoot /home/sites/ks/cache CacheEnable disk / CacheDirLevels 2 CacheDirLength 8 CacheMaxFileSize 2097152000
ProxyRequests off ProxyPass /centos/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/centos/ </VirtualHost>
it should just work with something like: ProxyPass /archlinux/ http://some.mirror/path_to/archlinux/ point your installers there and you should be fine
I know you said squid is to much hassle... maybe your more comfortable with apache ;)
Regards, Wolfgang
sounds like a nice workaround. but does this cache the packages twice ? (apache cache and pacman cache)