New PackageKit and gnome-packagekit in F9 soon

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:52 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
>  * It always asks for authentication and there is no option to remember
> the authentication when it discovers thath the package is not signed. Is
> it intentional?

Yup, there's a security hole (potentially) if we allow the auth to be
retained for unsigned files.

>  * The window with update progress closes itself after I give the needed
> permissions to install and as a result I am not notified of the update
> result. I can reopen the window via the notify icon though...

How did you launch the update? Using the icon or using the Update
software tool?

> Yum seems to be OK with failing scriplets (i.e. finishes the
> update/install/remove of other packages and marks the installation as
> success), so this might not be PackageKit fault.

Hmm. If you can reproduce, could you run "pkcon update" in the console
please, and post the output.

Thanks,

Richard.