jan damborsky wrote: > 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 ? >
Yes, file the bug; it may be optional behavior, since at some point zones installation may make use of it. Dave
