On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:21 +0200, drago01 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Bill Nottingham
<notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III (bruno(a)wolff.to) said:
>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 18:04:55 -0400,
>> Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 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 :)
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