Fedora 19 Final blocker status: fix and karma requests

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 24 13:21:35 UTC 2013


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.


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