[packagekit] Yum and locking

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 09:28:56 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:14 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:47 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > > David Zeuthen wrote:
> > >> I respectfully disagree. If PackageKit turns out to work well on Fedora,
> > >> we simply avoid installing yum-updatesd (and other things like pirut and
> > >> pup) on the Fedora Desktop spin / livecd [1].
> > 
> > Well, there will probably eventually need to be a pk-updatesd or
> > something similar to handle automatic updates when there is no session
> > user.
> 
> cron + dbus-send will do just fine I think...

Yes, or even cron and "pkcon update-system" - it all gets queued nicely
on the proviso the system has a network connection.

Richard.





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