Packagekit bug icon not disappearing in F11!

Germán A. Racca german.racca at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 02:00:41 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 13:58 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Kelly Dunlop <kelly at xyzzy.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I'm running F11 and Gnome and sometimes I use yum or if I'm feeling lazy I
> > just click on the PackageKit icon and let it do the updates.  Either way
> > the icon goes away afterwards.  Sometimes it may take a few minutes because
> > PackageKit obviously has to do the equivalent of a yum check-update to see
> > what you've updated.   I know this because if do a yum from the command line
> > and only update some of the packages and then try immediately to do another
> > yum update there is a lock in place.
> >
> > I think I'd be irritated if it didn't go away because it should allow you
> > to use yum in preference to the GUI.
> 
> Well interestingly I set the preferences to never check for updates or
> major upgrades and to never install and yet it still does pop up so it
> must still actually check for updates - I know that I could uninstall
> gnome packagekit altogether but it is a bit disconcerting that it
> appears to still check for updates when you asked it not to!
> 
> -- 
> mike c

The same happens in my Fedora 12 (Gnome), so the bug is not only for
Fedora 11.

Cheers,
G.

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Germán A. Racca
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