Annotation of /urpmi-proxy/trunk/README

URPMI-PROXY:
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The CGI file is meant as an alias for /mageia on a webserver; so that
it can be used as a urpmi repository and it proxies the calls with caching to
configured repositories. Overriding with an extra local repos and turning is
also possible.

After installation (see INSTALL file), you can use eg:
http://your.server.com/mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/
as an urpmi distrib repository to install from or setting it in your other
mageia machines.

It proxies all releases, versions and architectures and even iso files,
since it just caches files. Only the files you'll effectively request,
will be stored in the cache though. Even though some files are always checked
before checking for cache, in the event that those files can't be checked,
it'll use those cached files anyway.

ADVANCED USAGE:
---------------
This standard usages will let you cache your whole network (or chroots), but
not the machine this urpmi-proxy is running on. You can actually do this by
configuring the sources in the config file to the ones you were using in your
urpmi settings, and then remove all configured media from urpmi; then
adding the media, directly from your server with this proxy url.
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3
4			The CGI file is meant as an alias for /mageia on a webserver; so that
5			it can be used as a urpmi repository and it proxies the calls with caching to
6			configured repositories. Overriding with an extra local repos and turning is
7			also possible.
8
9			After installation (see INSTALL file), you can use eg:
10			http://your.server.com/mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/
11			as an urpmi distrib repository to install from or setting it in your other
12			mageia machines.
13
14			It proxies all releases, versions and architectures and even iso files,
15			since it just caches files. Only the files you'll effectively request,
16			will be stored in the cache though. Even though some files are always checked
17			before checking for cache, in the event that those files can't be checked,
18			it'll use those cached files anyway.
19
20			ADVANCED USAGE:
21			---------------
22			This standard usages will let you cache your whole network (or chroots), but
23			not the machine this urpmi-proxy is running on. You can actually do this by
24			configuring the sources in the config file to the ones you were using in your
25			urpmi settings, and then remove all configured media from urpmi; then
26			adding the media, directly from your server with this proxy url.