[packagekit] Documentation

Matthias Clasen matthias.clasen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 07:23:43 PDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 22:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  > Good question. These settings are per-user, and control how often the
>  > gpk-update-icon running in your session checks for new updates, and
>  > what it does with any new updates that it finds.
>
>  Agree. Only the currently active session is allowed to perform policy,
>  so basically the policy is used of whoevers session is active.

Of course, there can be multiple active sessions...

>  > Richard was working on a cron script to handle updates when nobody is
>  > logged in. I'm not sure if that has made it into a release yet.
>
>  Yes, it's available in 0.1.10, but disabled by default. Do you think
>  that a description and explanation about PackageKit-cron belongs in the
>  gnome-packagekit yelp documentation? Maybe just a cursory mention?

Yes, I think it would be fine to mention it in the same context where
the above topics are discussed.



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