should we always install updates by default at each shut down?

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu May 14 14:57:46 UTC 2015


On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:53 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 08:48 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Kalev Lember <
> > kalevlember at gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > sgallagh asked me to seek guidance on the list here: Is it 
> > > something
> > > that we should fix before the F22 release and flip the default 
> > > back 
> > > so
> > > that when someone hurriedly clicks through the shut down dialog, 
> > > they
> > > don't accidentally go into a 15-minute offline update applying 
> > > mode?
> > > 
> > Yes, please fix it. If anything I'd like to see a 15 minute delay 
> > before PackageKit starts downloading a Gig of data. There used to 
> > be 
> > a way to disable checking (and downloading) updates, but that's MIA 
> > 
> > these days.
> 
> Nothing gets downloaded. We only offer an offline update if all the
> data is already on your system.

Nothing gets downloaded *at shutdown*. I think he's saying that he
wants to be able to disable the background download and only do on
-demand updates. I thought this used to be an option in GNOME Software,
but I can't find it on F22.
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