[packagekit] running without a head via cron

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Tue Mar 4 08:36:31 PST 2008


On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:21:42 +0000
Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> Patch attached allows PackageKit to be optionally run once a day using
> cron. Is this sane? I think it's quite useful on the headless server
> use case and it's trivial to add.
> 
> More info here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435628
> 
> Comments?

This looks like a good start - one comment I have is the days of week
option - I would leave all the scheduling bits to cron, and just have
the small utility you've got do the packagekitty bits.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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