Fedora 15 Update notification

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 04:34 -0400, Vitezslav Humpa wrote:
> This https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696121 deals with an issue
> that currently the system waits for 1 week to inform about possible non-security
> updates.
> 
> This brings up a question whether the "Testcase desktop updates" is still
> accurate as it states that the notification should appear within 30 minutes.
> I understand that this is likely still the case if there are security issues
> pending - however as there are more likely non to be pending during the TC
> or RC desktop testing, it's little difficult to test.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to trigger the notification manually to see
> whether it works (other than changing date a week in the future) or does
> somebody know of a security package update i could try to downgrade?
> 
> I am thinking modifying the test case to reflect this situation.
> Thoughts?

I checked with packagekit maintainer about this and he thought the
*initial* check should still be done pretty much as soon as possible;
after that it goes to checking once per week. But empirical results
suggest that this may not entirely be the case. It kinda shuffled off my
radar, though.
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