[Bug 616251] Review Request: uptrack - Client for the Ksplice Uptrack rebootless kernel update service

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--- Comment #2 from Nelson Elhage <nelhage at ksplice.com> 2010-07-28 18:21:07 EDT ---
> You're overwriting part of PackageKit? That's not acceptable. Is this essential
> to the functionality of uptrack? It looks like you're just pulling "kernel" out
> of the list of packages that require a reboot.

Correct. The goal is here is to have a clean user experience: We found on
Ubuntu
that users were confused about continuing to get a "reboot required"
notification for kernel package updates after installing Ksplice, since they
were upgrading the in-memory kernel rebootlessly.

We agree users should keep the Fedora kernel rpm up to date -- we just found
users were confused being warned that they still needed to reboot after
installing a new one.

We're not totally thrilled about the mechanism (overwriting PackageKit),
though,
and we'd definitely be happy to consider cleaner alternatives there.

If suppressing these notifications is a total non-starter, we can probably take
them out, but we've found it greatly improves the user experience.

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