LiveUSB and PackageKit Updates

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 14 02:13:55 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 21:58 -0400, Michael Solberg wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm sure someone's thought of this before, but I keep running into this
> issue on the LiveUSB on the XO.
> 
> The issue is that /var/cache/yum is mounted as tmpfs on the Live image.
> When I log into a desktop session that already knows my wireless key,
> the updates applet attempts to download all the packages from Rawhide.
> This fills the 256MB of RAM pretty quickly and that hangs the machine.
> Does it make sense to turn that applet off in this case?  Or maybe not
> mount /var/cache/yum as tmpfs when there's an overlay?
> 

yes, it makes sense to turn it off.

maybe even remove it.
-sv





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