[packagekit] running without a head via cron

Adrien BUSTANY madcat at mymadcat.com
Tue Mar 4 08:43:08 PST 2008


If pk replaces the infamous yum-updatesd, then yes it makes sense...

Richard Hughes a écrit :
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:24 +0100, Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
>   
>> Hmm, what's the point of using pk on a server ? On a desktop, it's 
>> really useful and nice compared to pirut/pup, but on a server yum
>> update is easier to run...
>>     
>
> The argument is that is PackageKit should replace yum-updatesd on fedora
> and this functionality will be required by some users. I can see the two
> files split out into another rpm or deb, something like PackageKit-cron.
>
> Plus, then I can then install PackageKit on my NAS (just a Fedora 8
> install) and just let it do the right thing even when it's sitting there
> without a user logged in.
>
> Richard.
>
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