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