LiveUSB and PackageKit Updates

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:13 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> yes, it makes sense to turn it off.
> 
> maybe even remove it.

If you remove it, then it's not present when people install from the
live image.  Hence, that's a bit of a non-starter

Jeremy