LiveUSB and PackageKit Updates

Joshua Daniel Franklin jdf.lists at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 14:07:19 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:30 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:13 -0400, Jeff Weiss wrote:
>> Er, on second thought there's really not much sense in eating up swap
>> space.  Maybe we should just turn off the cache (keepcache=0) ?
>>
> keepcache=0 just means that yum will automatically delete package files
> it has installed/updated. Not that it won't hold a cache.

I've run into this on servers with small hard disks, too. The only solution
I've found is to break the updates into small enough sets for available
disk and RAM. When something big like RHEL 4 Update 4 or whatever
comes out it may make more sense to rebuild from the new ISOs.




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