[packagekit] Distribution Upgrades

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Apr 19 09:41:41 PDT 2008


Hi,

It would be great if gpk-update-icon can notify the user when a new 
release of a distribution is available and initiate a distribution 
upgrade. One of the new features in Fedora (that is currently available 
for Fedora 7, 8 and rawhide) is preupgrade.

More details on that at

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/15/interview-fedora-developers-seth-vidal-and-will-woods/

Atleast in the Fedora instance, we just need to hookup the update applet 
with preupgrade and you are good to go.  IIRC, Ubuntu has a similar 
feature too. Maybe we could abstract this?

Rahul



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