Thoughts on updates

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 09/30/2009 10:37 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since it has come up recently, I figured I'd briefly mention that some
> people in the desktop team, QE, and release engineering had a few
> lunchtime chats about our update process.  I tried to write down some
> of what we talked about:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience
> 
> I later found out that there are a number of different initiatives
> underway that may help with this problem.  So, that is good news.
> 
> Interested to hear your thoughts.

One thing I would really like is for PackageKit to download updates in
the background (detecting whether I am on a low bandwidth connection)
and only prompt me for updates when it is ready to install.

Another constant annoyance is that soon after a yum operation in the
command line, PackageKit insists on updating some metadata immediately
thereby locking out the subsequent commands for sometime (can be a
considerable delay). I would prefer it to wait for a few mins and not
interrupt me. Filed and closed WONTFIX however.

Rahul