On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:21 +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Bruno Wolff III (bruno@xxxxxxxx) said: > >> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 18:04:55 -0400, > >> Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >rpm db 82M > >> > >> I vaguely remember a discussion about dropping this for live images > >> because it gets rebuilt every boot when needed. My memory is that we > >> ended up removing this data while building live images, but haven't > >> looked at it in a long time. > > > > It's useful in terms of having a RPM-based manifest of what's on > > the image, and if you're installing the image to disk, you're going > > to need it on the installed system... > > And it allows stuff like "yum install foo" to work in the live environment. which is *extremely* useful both for normal use and for testing (I do 'yum update anaconda' for a quick test run all the time, fr'instance). Let's not lose that :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
