Bug 663970

Summary:	[RFE] Add ability to download off local machines
Product:	[Retired] Pulp	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component:	z_other	Assignee:	pulp-bugs
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Preethi Thomas <pthomas>
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jason.dobies, jmatthew, mhrivnak, skarmark, tsanders
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Description Bastien Nocera 2010-12-17 15:25:57 UTC

Consider this use case:
1. Joe has a desktop machine in his home that's nearly always on, or a file server running Fedora.
2. Joe also has a laptop, both machines run the latest Fedora
3. Joe wants to make updating his laptop faster, and ticks the "share downloaded packages with others" button in the package updater, on his desktop (or server)
4. Joe's laptop automatically picks up that there is a local cache for files, and uses it to get cached packages

Some security considerations:
- don't download non-GPG signed packages from local caches
- download repository information from upstream

The point of the exercise is that it's one button to tick on the machine that will provide the cache (advertised via zeroconf/mDNS), and either an opt-in or automatic setup on the client (another box to tick, or a package to install to enable the functionality)

Something similar exists for apt-get based systems:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/3503/best-way-to-cache-apt-downloads-on-a-lan
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptAvahi

Comment 1 John Matthews 2011-01-11 19:42:02 UTC

My understanding of this RFE:

It is addressing multiple machines sharing their content within the local network, thereby avoiding a trip to the external internet repos.

Below are some links addressing this concept with yum:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching
http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/avahi/

Comment 3 Michael Hrivnak 2013-09-26 20:34:57 UTC

This is a very old request that is not relevant to what pulp is today. Please re-open if you believe it pertains to pulp 2.2 or later.