[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] default to using a global livecd yum cache, not a private one

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:07 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > This patch moves the yum cache into /var/cache/livecd so that out of the
> > box, the tool doesn't repeatedly download stuff from the internet.
> 
> Patch is empty :)  But going from the earlier patch you put in bugzilla,
> I know the gist of this.  And it's along a similar line as kanarip's
> patch to allow specifying the cache dir.  The question is are we better
> off just going with a global one always or allowing it to be specified
> and if you want to share, then you can specify the global one.  And I
> can see both sides, although I somewhat lean towards allowing it to be
> specified.
> 
> One thing that becomes tricky in either case is how do we handle
> cleaning the directory?  Currently, it's simple -- it gets blown away
> every time.  When doing a shared or global cache, you don't want to blow
> it away, but you also want to make it easy for people to regain the disk
> space.  Maybe the answer is that if you specify the cache, then we don't
> blow it away and otherwise we do.  Other opinions?

Surely you'd want to unify the yum caches among pungi and livecd-creator?

Bill