PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

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On 04/25/2011 04:35 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 04/25/2011 01:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> PackageKit frequently *breaks* the yum command line, because it has
>> some unkillable (self-resurrecting) process that acquires a lock and
>> prevents yum from running.  It's a bug that we can't remove it.
> 
> You can edit the values in /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf or remove
> PackageKit-yum-plugin.  I have requested that the values be higher by
> default but haven't managed to convince PackageKit developers.  If more
> people complain about such issues instead of just removing it, we would
> get a better default experience, I hope.
> 
> Rahul


  Care to share which fields in there reduce the polling frequency ? I
did not see them.

  Say you wanted to make PackageKit check for updates once per day -
what would you change ?