Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > Every user I know makes a judgment call. E.g. I'll update Adium (aka > pidgin) whenever it asks, but I never install Apple updates without waiting > a few days to let others be the guinea pigs. Apple stupidly requires > reboots for trivial updates, so theirs tend to wait longest.
Sounds like Packagekit should have not just a single checkbox for "apply security updates silently", but instead a way to whitelist security updates for individual apps. Maybe you should file an enhancement request... > Dan, I think Linus is right: there are going to be *very* few IT shops where > they'll let software providers do silent mandatory update. It's a rare > enough case that it hardly seems worthwhile building the machinery to > support. The machinery's already there, it's just a question of harnessing it in a way that makes sense for both consumers (who want automagic updates) and enterprises (who want automagic updates, but centrally controlled by the enterprise). Taking my workplace for example (which I think also violently objects to ISV-driven autoupdates). To set up a workstation, you do a network boot, and it automatically installs Ubuntu from a local repo. Ubuntu is then set up to grab updates from that repo (though in our case the apt-get actions are triggered by some addon like cfengine or puppet). So the enterprise has total control with any app packaged as a .deb, even if the app sneakily triggers "apt-get install /me" via cron. (I have yet to run this scheme by them, perhaps I'll adjust it once I get their feedback.) - Dan _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
