Tech Spec: Software Updates

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 21:37 +0800, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> Another problem is that there used to be no indication at all that an
> update was being performed. There now is something in the top-left
> corner of the boot screen.

But this progress indicator usually starts at 45% and hangs on 55% until
the update is completed. If I didn't know better, I would absolutely
power off my computer after about a minute of that, and I don't blame
the users who do. (Sometimes the progress indicator seems like it's
actually functioning properly, but I don't know why it does sometimes
but not usually, and I've never seen it get past 90%.)

There's also some bug with the Plymouth theme, where the Fedora logo
visually starts out somewhere around 80% full (after the Installing
Updates text appears) and only then wraps around to 0%, which is super
confusing.

(These are details that need to be fixed, not arguments against offline
updates.)
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