[packagekit] Refresh button in update-viewer

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 11:02:39 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:57 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 10:57 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > Richard Hughes wrote: 
> > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 12:49 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Oh, so it will refresh the cache then check for updates?  For conary
> > > > the cache is irrelevent for get-updates, so I would prefer it just
> > > > chech for updates.
> > > >     
> > > 
> > > If you do get-updates (without doing refresh-cache) do you get todays
> > > security updates? Does get-updates automatically connect to the network
> > > and download the latest lists?
> > > 
> > > Richard.
> > > 
> > >   
> > The is no need to do a refresh-cache before get-updates in the yum
> > backend
> > get-updates will refresh the cache if needed. I don't hurt, but if it
> > make it easier for the other backends then just call 'get-updates'
> > alone
> 
> Sure, then that's what we should do. Ken: You were correct, apologies.
> 
> I'll make the change now.

In fact, do we even need the refresh button? It's not like this is going
to change while the window is open...

Richard.





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