Update notification triggers online update tool

[Adam Williamson]

On 08/04/13 09:27 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Thanks for drawing attention to this.  I personally often feel drowned
> by Bugzilla, especially after ABRT's automated entries, and I wish we
> had an ongoing manually maintained list of issues like this that are
> high profile, hardware independent, etc.

Sadly, we don't really have the resources to make any kind of 
appreciable dent in bug triage :/

> On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 16:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> There's an implication on the feature page that there should be a
>> distinction drawn between updates of 'OS components' (which should be
>> offline) and 'application updates and installations' (which should still
>> be possible online), but there's no indication this has actually been
>> implemented, and in my testing, the update notification pops up and
>> calls gnome-packagekit even when the update package set contains the
>> kernel, or systemd, or anything like that.
>
> Right.  As far as I know the current UI mockups center around what
> gnome-software is attempting to implement.  Lots to do here obviously to
> enable gnome-software; for example there's the bug that was discussed
> here regarding the icon data last month (
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488968 ).
>
> But we probably don't need to block on that; something stupid like by
> doing:
>
> diff --git a/plugins/updates/gsd-updates-manager.c b/plugins/updates/gsd-updates-manager.c
> index bb242ab..02a7d30 100644
> --- a/plugins/updates/gsd-updates-manager.c
> +++ b/plugins/updates/gsd-updates-manager.c
> @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ libnotify_action_cb (NotifyNotification *notification,
>                   goto out;
>           }
>           if (g_strcmp0 (action, "show-update-viewer") == 0) {
> -                ret = g_spawn_command_line_async (BINDIR "/gpk-update-viewer",
> +                ret = g_spawn_command_line_async (BINDIR "/gnome-software",
>                                                     &error);
>                   if (!ret) {
>                           g_warning ("Failure launching update viewer: %s",
>
> and ensuring gnome-software puts everything in the "OS update" box (to
> update offline) would get us to a saner place, from which further
> iteration is possible.

Right, it seems like something that could be improved in the short term 
quite appreciably by fairly simple hacks. Anything that doesn't result 
in the online update app showing up would help, really.
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