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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