[packagekit] [RFE] use lower iopriority for background update checking

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 07:29:44 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:45 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> What update-manager (and several other tools do) is wait an amount
> of time before initiating the action. I don't know whether this
> solution is better, and perhaps they should be combined.

Yes, the gpk-update-icon should wait at least 2 minutes to start.

> Is that API available on all of the target platforms?

Well, it's hardly available on Linux. Defining my own constants and
doing a syscall seems pretty icky.

Richard.




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