On Monday 17 January 2005 08:08 am, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:28:34PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > Hello, > > Hi, > > > Some brazilians who work on the 'Debian-BR-CDD' effort talked to me > > about an update tray tool. I know you both are interested and working on > > such tools currently. > > > > Daniel Burrows is apt-watch's and aptitude's author. Michiel Sikkes and > > Michael Vogt wrote the tools which are being used by ubuntu. They can be > > found here: > > > > http://ftp.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/pool/main/u/update-manager/ > > http://ftp.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/pool/main/u/update-notifier/ > > While apt-watch is a very nice gnome applet we (the ubuntu desktop > people) decided to go with a different approach. This some some > advantages and some drawbacks. Here is a brief overview how > update-notifier works: > > update-notifier runs entirely as a user and can not do a "apt-get > update" on it's own (apt-watch can do it). I should point out that this isn't strictly accurate: apt-watch runs entirely as a user until you try to do an actual upgrade (it downloads the Packages files to $HOME). Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> ------------------\ | "Progress just means bad things happen faster." | | -- Terry Pratchett, _Witches Abroad_ | \--- Be like the kid in the movie! Play chess! -- http://www.uschess.org --/
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