Best Practice for DNF behind a caching proxy

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I’ve installed a proxy server, and directed all my RL machines to use that for packages. The idea being that then I don’t have to worry about maintaining my own mirror.

It seems like things are less than optimal, however, as the repo configurations all use mirrorlist. I end up hitting different mirrors, thus making the experience worse for everyone.

What’s the best way of ensuring that all RL repos are trying to fetch from, say, download.rockylinux.org, and then I just cache that?

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I went with the following strategy:

  • For all Rocky* repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/ I commented out mirrorlist, and commented in basedir=http://dl.rockylinux.org/ ...
  • For all other repos (Dell OMSA, EPEL) I let things be.
  • Proxy for DNF across the board.
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