A nit on apper

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Mar 22 20:20:03 UTC 2012


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> I recently attempted to update my system using apper. It gave me the
> list of rpms, I said Apply, it started working, then it popped up a
> message about some packages not being signed and did I want to proceed.
> However it didn't say *which* packages.
> 
> How is the user supposed to make an intelligent decision in this
> situation?

Fair enough, though I could have sworn there was a "show more" or "details" 
button there somewhere, no?

> I just killed apper and used yum, which my usual procedure.
> Interestingly, yum had no complaints about unsigned packages and
> everything worked.

It's a PackageKit policy to require an additional notification for the 
unsigned packges case, not specific to apper

-- rex



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