Thoughts on updates

[Richard Hughes]

2009/9/30 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> One thing I would really like is for PackageKit to download updates in
> the background (detecting whether I am on a low bandwidth connection)
> and only prompt me for updates when it is ready to install.

It already detects what kind of connection you are on. When the
idle-bandwidth changes are done we can do things like this without
upsetting people actually using the connection.

> Another constant annoyance is that soon after a yum operation in the
> command line, PackageKit insists on updating some metadata immediately
> thereby locking out the subsequent commands for sometime (can be a
> considerable delay). I would prefer it to wait for a few mins and not
> interrupt me. Filed and closed WONTFIX however.

Sure, remove PackageKit-yum-plugin or blacklist it in the yum
configuration. There's also now configuration for this value in the
systemwide config file, /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf:

# The time in seconds to wait when we get the StateHasChanged method
#
# This should be used when a native tool has been used, and the update UIs
# should be updated to reflect reality.
#
# default=5
StateChangedTimeoutPriority=5

Change this to something like 2400 and if should do pretty much what you want.

Richard.