LiveUSB and PackageKit Updates
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 14 13:30:30 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:04 -0400, Jeff Weiss wrote:
> This is two separate issues isn't it? Doesn't /var/cache/yum get
> written to whether you use the applet or yum on the command line?
>
> My understanding of the overlay was that once you write something to it,
> that space is gone forever, even if you delete those files. So having
> cache as part of the overlay will just make it fill up quicker. And
> aren't yum cache hits pretty unlikely? Wouldn't it just be when someone
> re-installs something they've uninstalled? I would have thought tmpfs
> is the way to go here - when end users run yum, it's better to
> re-download than to use up the overlay - once that's gone, you're hosed.
I think the issue is the applet does it automatically. Yum does it only
on demand.
-sv
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