[Fedora-livecd-list] gpk-update applet on live cd

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 00:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 03:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> gpk-update applet runs on the live cd and checks for updates on the live 
> >> cd environment (atleast for the xfce spin) and I suspect it does on the 
> >> other live cd's as well. Should this be disabled? If so, what would be 
> >> the best way to do it?
> > 
> > In theory, this should be getting done by default now (see
> > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=livecd;a=commitdiff;h=0e85e65b0e3f45d17650c5d2e87768dcf5d4f7dd)
> 
> Seems to be only in theory. I checked in the preview release and the 
> update applet is initiated in the live cd and ends up downloading 
> metadata which can be of significant size and associated cost in a 
> bandwidth limited connection. The update applet should never be started 
> in a live cd environment.

The next snapshot of gnome-PackageKit will really not check for updates
when the preference is set to 'never'.