On 03/25/09 20:51, Shawn Walker wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> I don't believe there's a way to not populate the download cache, but >> it will be cleaned up after the package installation if the image has >> the flush-content-cache-on-success property set to True. So we do >> need to include some overhead in the calculation to account for it, >> and perhaps 20% isn't too far off ;-) > > The files have to be stored somewhere before installation starts, the > download cache just happens to be that place. If, as Dave pointed > out, you have flush-content-cache-on-success set to True, you've > essentially turned the download cache into a fancy /tmp directory.
If I understand correctly, there is no need to have that data on installed system ? If this is the case then I think we would like to allow IPS clean up that cache after bits are installed, since it consumes ~1GB on disk. Dave, do you think it is appropriate to file bug for this ? Thank you, Jan
