Does KDE do offline software updates?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 23:57:19 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 11:40 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 17:50 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> OK I'm going to display some total KDE ignorance here, hopefully a KDE
> >> user can answer this.
> >
> > Note that there's a Fedora-KDE list at
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde
> >
> >> On GNOME, gnome-software + packagekit + systemd work together to make
> >> the  user aware of software updates. This includes any installed
> >> applications, as well as OS + kernel updates. The user clicks on
> >> Restart & Install in gnome-software, or chooses that option in the
> >> reboot/poweroff panel. The system reboots, a special systemd offline
> >> updates target is triggered, and packagekit installs all the
> >> previously downloaded rpms with a progress indicator, then reboots
> >> (again).
> >
> > You mean Gnome makes you reboot for every update? I must be
> > misunderstanding what you're saying.
> 
> OS updates yes. If it's strictly an application update or install, no.

That's fine. It's just that from your description I had the impression
that the only way to apply updates was from this Restart & Install
action.

poc



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