Re: yum-cache in /tmp

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 18:55 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 	The yum cache is on a ramfs in anaconda and that really has a big hit 
> with larger (think glibc) rpm packages on a small memory box. Could /tmp 
> be copied to /mnt/instimage/tmp and bind-mounted there? Or point yum's 
> cache to instimage? Or am I missing something?

In The Past (tm), this would have been more difficult as we didn't have
the install root mounted when going into package selection.  Now that we
do, it's something that we can look at (although probably by switching
our cache to be under the install root)

Jeremy