Fedora 19 Final blocker status: fix and karma requests

[Adam Williamson]

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