LiveUSB and PackageKit Updates

[seth vidal]

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