Suggestion how to enable caching

[Barak Korren]

I wonder if we'll really need this on each and every builder.
Wouldn't one central squid VM suffice?
It could indeed be useful, also for caching packages pulled by yum.

Barak.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabian Deutsch" <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
> To: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:54:40 PM
> Subject: Suggestion how to enable caching
> 
> Hey.
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I used squid to improve the build
> speed of images.
> 
> I think the minimal, easy to maintain and valuable solution is this simple
> config:
> 
> 1. Setup squid on builders (default install on Fedora)
> 2. Add the following lines to the /etc/squid.conf
> 
> # Increase maximum size of cached objects and specify the cache_dir
> # REMEMBER the ORDER
> maximum_object_size 5 GB
> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 20000 16 256
> 
> 3. Enable and start squid service
> 
> The service will only listen to connections from local networks, and will not
> proxy connections from public addresses.
> 
> The usage then is as follows:
> 
> Export http_proxy=127.0.0.1:3128 and all curl instances will pick up the
> proxy.
> Similar parameters exist for other tools like the livemedia-creator too.
> 
> I am not familiar with writing a puppet class for this. But at least it is
> quite self contained.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Geetings
> fabian
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