[systemd-devel] Running packagekitd on shutdown

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 24.08.11 13:39, Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) wrote:

> > r /upgrade
> > 
> > That way we can be sure that the flag file is removed as soon as the
> > root fs is writable.
> > 
> > The rest of the earlier suggestion would stay the same.
> 
> So, thinking about the UI of this, I'm assuming the flow would be.
> 
> 1. PK notices updates that require this mechanism
> 2. PK asks 'Upgrade Now?'
> 2a. Yes -> step 4
> 2a. No -> continue session. (Perhaps a persistent notification here.)
> 3. On user-initiated shutdown/restart, ask again.
> 3a. Yes -> step 4
> 3b. No, reboot as normal. Notification returns on next login.
> 4. PK drops the flag in
> 5. PK reboots into upgrade
> 6. Upgrade reboots into system once done
> 
> The main points I'm addressing here:
> 
> 1) You don't want to have to try and get all the infrastructure up to
> ask what the user wants to do on boot; do this in the normal session.
> 2) You don't want to offer to upgrade on the next reboot, have the user
> keep working, have a system crash/battery die/whatever, and then start
> upgrading when the user reboots to finish their document.
> 
> You may already be heading this way in the design, but the gnome.org page
> wasn't clear yet.

I generally agree with your ideas, except maybe that I'd drop 3, and
just keep the request in the message tray as long as the user didn't
agree to it.

Lennart

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