<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Richard Hughes wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1190840215.2846.45.camel@hughsie-laptop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 16:49 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Richard Hughes <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hughsient@gmail.com"><hughsient@gmail.com></a> writes: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:21 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> - Silently download updates in the background </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Hmm difficult, as UpdateSystem is a one-method call, not a two level "download" and then "install". We could fix that tho, although I'm not sure the backends would be able to do what we wanted. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Instead of always requiring a two-step model, you could have an optional 'predownload' step for backends that support 'download only'. Then when the 'do updates' step occurs, a smart backend should make use of the predownloaded bits. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> What about UpdateSystem(b=prepare)? What backends could support this? </pre> </blockquote> What about making a new download_updates backend call, then the backend can if it is supported download the packages into the local cache Then the normal update will installed the packages in the cache, or do the same thing as today, if no packages is in the cache or the download_updates is not supported. This can be implemented with the yum backend. Tim </body> </html>