[packagekit] Not doing updates when on GPRS

[David Timms]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> I want to make PackageKit not do updates when I'm on my GRPS connection
> - for this we need to know:
> 
> 1. If the connection is up
> 2. The type of connection
> 3. The throughput of the connection

4. The cost per MB or second of the connection !!

Just to throw a spanner in the works - I don't want any surprises when 
my mobile phone {gprs}, 3g-broadband, cable, adsl, pstn modem ISP or 
carriers charge either for connect time, download, and/or upload on my 
connection(s).

For example in Fedora 8, the updates metadata is 2.1 MB. This seems to 
be retrieved at least once a day, ie after an updates push, while the 
indicator file is retrieved every 15mins. Even just checking whether the 
updates that are available are applicable to the user's system for a 
month would kill the low cost 3g-mobile broadband 30MB included data.

Thought for food ;-)

DaveT.