On 12/29/2016 07:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember(a)gmail.com
<mailto:kalevlember@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 12/23/2016 11:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> In gnome-shell if I go to restart (upper right corner, power button
> icon) I have an 'install pending software updates' now for two days,
> but there's no other notification that there are pending software
> updates.
>
> Is this change in behavior expected? Seems like a bug. Maybe I'll
> leave it alone for a couple more days and see if it continues to
> accumulate updates without any notification.
gnome-software notifies only once per week as per design (or more often
when there are pending security updates available), but at the same time
it does prepare the offline update as soon as it finds new updates so
it's possible to install the updates manually more often if you want to,
either through the gnome-shell shutdown dialog or from gnome-software
itself.
I don't think there's been a behaviour change here, unless there's a bug
somewhere of course.
A side effect of this, is multiple package versions are being downloaded
but not installed; only the latest version is installed. a.) this is
consuming bandwidth for no purpose and b.) PackageKit only removes the
downloaded packages that it installs, anything not installed remains
behind to take up space, never being deleted.
Yes, item b) is bad. It's caused a lot of comment over on the users
list. IMHO, packagekit should replace any older versions of packages
it downloads so that only the latest version of a package is held in
the cache. There's no logical reason to hold obsoleted packages unless
you have a desire to be a pack rat (or should that be "packagekit rat"?)
Alternately, make holding the old packages optional (with "purge" being
the default) or doing something like dnf's "installonly_limit" thing.
Not everyone has huge disks to hold masses of outdated content.
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