Re: PackageKit cleanup: Do you use these functions?

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Matthias wrote:
>
>PackageKit also has support for systemd-based offline-updates for a
>while now, which downloads updates while the system is running, and
>installs them in a special mode when the system is rebooting. This
>should ensure that no breakage happens when running applications are
>replaced with new versions. This is, however, a completely optional
>feature, and updates of the system while it is running are still
>possible with PK.
>GNOME (and especially GNOME-Software) seems to make more use of
>offline-updates, so we need to think about supporting it in Debian
>(main issue is debconf questions, which don't work well during
>offline-updates). I am not going to push that for Jessie, since it
>will require some precautions in Apt/the PK aptcc backend. But if you
>want, you can try it already. (Note that I want to keep this
>desktop-only, since on servers it does not make that much sense (esp.
>in case an error happens and the system doesn't recover correctly,
>which might happen until we have btrfs, which is upstream's plan)).

Please push back hard against this - the offline-updates "feature" is
a joke. Let's not try to emulate the worst bits of Windows any more
please.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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