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hi
You guys are awesome! If all I've heard is true, gnome 3.18 will be a
milestone, both in terms of accessibility and in terms of new
functionality. I can't wait!
Thanks
Kendell clark
Kalev Lember wrote:
On 08/08/2015 10:18 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 17:54 +0930, Andrew Walton wrote:
>> Quite a few people have told me that packagekit doesn't do it's
>> own downloads but here's a quick experiment you can try that
>> says this is not entirely accurate.
>
> Of course it does its own downloads! And even if it didn't, it
> would still be harsh on bandwidth: simply checking for updates
> requires downloading new repo metadata, which can be big on its
> own.
To clear this up, the above is both true and untrue in a way :)
It's gnome-software that drives the periodic downloads, but the
actual downloading is done through PackageKit.
The daily metadata downloading can be currently turned off with a
super-secret gsettings key. It was originally only meant for the
live cd use case where we needed to turn off metadata downloads in
order to avoid filling up the ramdisk, but I have heard that people
have found this useful for other cases as well.
Periodic metadata downloads can be disabled with: gsettings set
org.gnome.software download-updates false
and reset to the default value (re-enabled) with: gsettings reset
org.gnome.software download-updates
Furthermore, there's a new NetworkManager API in the works that
allows apps to determine if connections are 'metered' to avoid
downloading updates. This API actually landed in NetworkManager a
few weeks ago, and there's a plan to make use of it in
gnome-software.
Look out for improvements in this area :)
Hope this clears things up, Kalev
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