XO: Who ate my rpms

[Bryan Kearney]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:05 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Ok... this is probably a dumb question. I booted up snap3. I opened a 
>> terminal, su -, and then installed ekiga. I selected shutdown from the 
>> menu, and it seemed to hang (not fully shutting down).
>>
>> I reboot, log in, and there is no ekiga.
>>
>> so.. who ate my rpms?
> 
> As mentioned in my blog (you are reading Fedora Planet and thus my blog,
> right? :-), 

Of course I am *cough* now

the current version of livecd-iso-to-disk is defaulting to
> doing an overlay reset on every boot.  This is to help reduce the
> likelihood of problems due to running out of space on the overlay since
> we now keep /home on the nand and settings have pretty much entirely
> moved to the homedir.
> 
> That said, I'll probably switch the default back so that we don't reset
> the overlay on every boot for manual livecd-iso-to-disk runs, but I'm at
> the same time leaning towards having the shipped SD cards with Fedora
> preloaded set up as such.

Seems an interesting trade off. If I want to install another program, I 
have to jump through a view more hoops. Which is easier to debug... out 
of space or overlay resetting?

-- bk