[packagekit] Live upgrade

[Rahul Sundaram]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> I saw that the Ubuntu update applet shows the next release as an
>> update option too where applicable.
> 
> How does the tool get the list of available upgrades? RSS or metadata?
> Would we have to poll?

I haven't really checked out the details. I just saw a screenshot. 
Someone more familiar with Ubuntu would have to answer these questions 
or you can grab the source and look.

Rahul