kpackagekit is bad

Steven M. Parrish smparrish at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 14:44:45 UTC 2009


> Last several times kpackagekit ran to update here, it didn't work well at
> all. I told it to 'apply' updates.  It seems to just hang, saying 'getting
> info' or something like that.  Eventually I just try to cancel.  (I always
> end up with 2 of them, and need to try to cancel both.  No idea what the
> hell is going on).
>
> I'm left with the icon still there, if clicked it says:
>
> Getting updates (cancelling).
>
> Forever.
>
> In the meantime, it actually DID finish the updates OK.
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Yes there are some issues we are seeing but AFAIK they are being caused by 
changes in the underlying PackageKit.  Upstream devs for both Packagekit and 
KPackagekit are aware of the issues.

Steven

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