LiveUSB and PackageKit Updates

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 21:58 -0400, Michael Solberg wrote:
> I'm sure someone's thought of this before, but I keep running into this
> issue on the LiveUSB on the XO.
> 
> The issue is that /var/cache/yum is mounted as tmpfs on the Live image.
> When I log into a desktop session that already knows my wireless key,
> the updates applet attempts to download all the packages from Rawhide.

It's supposed to be getting turned off already.  But there have been a
few bugs.  Things should be a lot better as of Snap1 or just after based
on the traffic in the bug (can't find the # off-hand) although I still
need to verify it

> This fills the 256MB of RAM pretty quickly and that hangs the machine.
> Does it make sense to turn that applet off in this case?  Or maybe not
> mount /var/cache/yum as tmpfs when there's an overlay?

Actually, you even *more* want it as tmpfs when there's an overlay.
Otherwise, you fill up your overlay and hit other bad error
conditions :-/

Jeremy