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Bug 1560504 - Don't autostart gnome-software on live media
Summary: Don't autostart gnome-software on live media
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: spin-kickstarts
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Václav Pavlín
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: AcceptedFreezeException
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Blocks: F28BetaFreezeException
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-26 11:28 UTC by Kalev Lember
Modified: 2018-03-27 12:50 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-03-27 12:50:46 UTC
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Description Kalev Lember 2018-03-26 11:28:02 UTC 
gnome-software session service automatically downloads yum metadata, which all goes to the RAM-backed filesystem overlay when running the live image. This is undesired as it can make it difficult to install Workstation on low memory devices.

I'd like to fix this by disabling the gnome-software session service when running on the live media, and would like to have a Freeze Exception for F28 Beta.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OXHESICFMAJLYNWZUYXA5TMZMLMBOXTW/
Comment 1 Kalev Lember 2018-03-26 11:33:38 UTC 
PR for master: https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/pull-request/367
PR for F28: https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/pull-request/368
Comment 2 Geoffrey Marr 2018-03-26 18:57:14 UTC 
Discussed during the 2018-03-26 blocker review meeting: [1]

The decision to classify this bug as an AcceptedFreezeException was made as this obviously causes unnecessary resource usage (especially RAM and bandwidth) during live boots and cannot be fixed with an update.

[1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2018-03-26/f28-blocker-review.2018-03-26-16.01.txt
Comment 3 Patrick Uiterwijk 2018-03-26 21:00:32 UTC 
The PRs to the kickstarts have been merged.
Comment 4 Kalev Lember 2018-03-27 12:50:46 UTC 
I tested 28_Beta-1.1 compose and the fix seems to work as expected: gnome-software session service doesn't start on the live media and packagekitd doesn't download metadata in the background.
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