2009/12/11 Rahul Sundaram :
> File a bug report against gnome-packagekit. Seems to be a recurring bug.
In the future, can you tell people to search for existing bugs in
bugzilla _before_ they file bugs please. I spend at least an hour of
development time every day just replying to bugs and linking
2009/11/29 Matthew Saltzman :
> I'm using the nouveau driver in a fresh F12 installation on a Thinkpad
> T61. When I click the battery icon on the taskbar, it doesn't show any
> action choices, such as suspend or shutdown.
This was removed in GNOME 2.28.0. For F12 you can enable
/apps/gnome-power
2009/11/20 William Case :
> As I get ready to upgrade/install to F12 an old curiosity question comes
> to mind. Fedora now has several programs it has packaged with the
> designation 'Kit'. PolicyKit, PackageKit and FirstAidKit come to mind.
> I assume it just means a bunch of programs, libraries
2009/11/12 Sam Varshavchik :
> Meanwhile, with all of the above, gnome-power-manager is now showing me the
> last full charge of 947.4 watt-hours, throwing everything off kilter.
What's the output of "devkit-power --dump" in this case? Thanks.
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2009/11/12 Sam Varshavchik :
> Somehow, since a few weeks ago, occasionally gnome power manager loses its
> mind and starts telling me that my laptop battery's "last full charge" is
> 946.0 watt-hours of juice. Which makes the battery percentage indicator
> pretty much meaningless.
Have a look at
2009/10/26 Robert Moskowitz :
> Buy a 'Kill-a-Watt'. Prices vary from $20-$35. Great tool, I have had mine
> for over a year.
If you buy a Watts UP Pro device with USB, and plug it in,
gnome-power-statistics can read power values and plot on a pretty
graph.
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2009/9/18 Jatin K :
> well... I'm using tp_smapi on my IBM ThinkPad R51 .. with fedora 11 and it
> works fine for me .
Sure, I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it's not in the
upstream kernel.
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2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman :
> OK What's the best way to request that? Would it get generated as a
> consequence of the power manager RFE? Or should I file it separately?
> Anything special about kernel feature requests?
Well, you can file a kernel bug if you want, but it's a fair chunk of
new f
2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman :
> The Lenovo power monitor on the XP side of my dual-boot laptop
> recommends not starting the charge cycle until the charge drops to 80%.
> I've been considering filing an RFE for the GNOME power manager applet
> to make that a user-settable parameter.
We'd need kerne
2009/8/28 Mike Wright :
> Using f10 here.
Perhaps try F11?
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2009/8/21 Tim :
> I have an Asus laptop, which Fedora 11 doesn't seem to be able to tell
> anything about the battery status, although Fedora 9 does. Any clues
> about what to look into about this?
You want to look at the output of "devkit-power --dump" and then look
at bugzilla for a problem sim
2009/8/15 Beartooth :
> I've been dutifully updating my own machines with gpk-update-
> viewer; but ssh -X for some reason doesn't seem to handle it well when I
> update my wife's, on another floor. So, rather than bite off more
> troubleshooting than I can hope to chew, I've just gone back
2009/8/15 Fons Adriaensen :
> All this *Kit stuff is bringing the worst of Windows
> to Linux, and it's being done in a way that completely
> subverts a normal Unix-like system. Someone should stop
> this madness.
Ha, that's funny!
Basically, the problem is that Linux is quite capable of running
2009/8/7 Tom Horsley :
> OK, I'll leave off the smiley: I cannot for the life of me imagine
> any train of logic that could lead to the overall design of
> packagekit without assuming they were deliberately attempting
> to make it as bad as they possibly could.
Ha!
> And, in fact, they may have b
2009/8/7 Tom Horsley :
> Me too. I just wish I could turn off packagekit before I ever login
> so it doesn't lock up the update process as soon as I do the first login
> before
> I can disable it :-).
There are many ways to disable it if you wish.
> Or even wait for the interface to be remotely
2009/8/4 Stuart McGraw :
> * What it is downloading?
> * What is the total size of the downloads?
> * How much is done, how much remains?
> * How to pause it so I can get my email?
> * How do I turn off auto-updates permanently?
> (In System->Prefs->Software Updates I had set
> "Check for updates
2009/7/24 Richard Shaw :
> I not have had a situation where a Packagekit based update failed
> during transaction testing because it attempted to update the x86_64
> package but not the i586 package. When I do a yum update from the
> terminal it downloads the additional packages Packagekit missed a
2009/7/22 Timothy Murphy :
> 3. The connection is always lost (in my case) after Suspend to RAM.
You can't maintain a connection when suspended.
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2009/7/20 Mike Wright :
> When I use the Update Viewer I am presented with several categories needing
> updating. There is an option to review all or update all.
Are you using KDE or GNOME?
> There is no option, for example, to update only security fixes.
I'll assume you're using GNOME PackageK
2009/7/20 Claude Jones :
> Is there a disconnect there? It looks to me like the output of that first is
> in direct contradiction to the output of the second command, no?
Yes. PackageKit uses:
yumbase.conf.yumvar['releasever']
to get the current release version. If this still happens after a
reb
2009/7/19 Claude Jones :
> I'm typing on my recently pre-upgraded F11 box. It's been working well. I have
> completed several rounds of updates since the upgrade. Yet, just now, having
> just run a bunch of updates which included the latest KDE packages and Wine
> and some other stuff, PackageKit p
2009/7/15 brian :
> Also, why in heck can't I select & copy text in this kind of message
> dialogue? Bo!
File a bug against gnome-packagekit and I'll get this fixed.
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2009/7/3 Beartooth :
> One thing bugs me. It seems like practically every update I get
> has not one but several of those little icons telling me I have to reboot
> when the update finishes.
>
> Is this really necessary?? Why???
If it's telling you you have to reboot, then it probabl
2009/7/3 Pedro Jose :
> I load the p4-clockmod module but not working. Any idea?
p4-clockmod is a great way to use extra power. See
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/power/good_practices.html
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2009/7/2 D. Hugh Redelmeier :
> > * does not work with hardware cryptography acceleration, use
> without encryption!
So we fall back to doing it in software. No biggie.
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:58 PM, wrote:
> I would appreciate to see what Package Manager for GNOME is doing rather
> than doing its thing and giving no info.
I've been working on this yesterday. I'll commit some code after some
UI review. Will be fixed soon.
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
> How can I tell Packagekit to quit doing that? No, I don't want to install an
> additional font.
Unset /apps/gnome-packagekit/enable_font_helper in gconf-editor.
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Robert Wuest wrote:
> A new/inexperienced user is gonna have an unpleasant
> "HUH?" experience with it.
If you're watching non-free codecs, you have to install the non-free
repositories first.
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Michael Shelby
(deathnote6) wrote:
> The Software Update Gives me a transaction error
> "GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 4] IOError: "
It means some IO failed. Is the disk full? Is the disk broken? What's
the output of "pkcon get-updates"?
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502399 - remove-with-leaves
> confuses PackageKit, causing a Python backtrace - fixed in PackageKit 0.4.8
> by blacklisting the plugin
The plugin has obviously not been tested with PackageKit, which
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:54 PM, C Li wrote:
>> How can I get package installer to run in a GUI (gnome) as root. I keep
>> getting a message that says "You do not have sufficient privileges to
>> run this operation".
>>
> Use su -c 'gpk-install-local-file x.rpm' or sudo gpk-install-local-file
>
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wrote:
> ** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: The name
> org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files
> ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.
Ensure gpk-update-icon is running,
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Devon Harding wrote:
> I'm running a fedora 10 on Microsoft Virtual Server R2
Non free...
> (Which I converted
Unsupported...
> from VMWare
Non free...
> When it gets to the point where it says "Starting udev..."
> the screen gets corrupted with a bunch of ve
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 10:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I whipped out a yum plugin today to run a custom script
> every time yum exits (so I can check if new rpms have
> clobbered my customizations and put them back :-).
>
> It works fine when I run yum, but I'm curious about
> all the other tools
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 01:41 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Speaking of that, is there any chance we can have PackageKit 0.4 in F10
> updates at some point? KPackageKit 0.4 requires it and there are plenty of
> improvements there over the old 0.3.1 release we're currently shipping.
There's no technic
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 18:29 +, Beartooth wrote:
> Not to be contentious, but because I want to know if I'm missing
> anything : what is the benefit of running PackageKit, rather than "yum
> clean all" followed by "yum update" at *my* convenience daily?
Well, codec installing, mime type inst
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:57 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
> Sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to put in some feature requests for
> Packagekit. Where would be the appropriate place for this?
Either on the PackageKit mailing list (probably best) or Fedora or
Freedesktop bugzilla.
> More importantly, I'm
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 08:03 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I see what you mean now. See the same error. I use yumex and it seems
> to work fine from vnc.
You need to add authorisations to do this from an inactive console in
polkit-gnome-authorization. It's denied by default.
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On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 13:11 -0400, Ryan Lynch wrote:
> PackageKit has been driving me nuts, lately. It will kick off
> installing updates in the middle of the day, while I'm trying to work,
> which drives my load average up to 3 or 4, basically making the
> machine unusable.
Sure, that sucks. You
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 17:31 -0400, William Case wrote:
> I haven't seen a re-boot warning yet even for the latest kernel
> ( 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64) which was downloaded using the
> PackageKit icon in my notification area. Does that mean I didn't have
> to re-boot ???
We only get the rebo
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 16:20 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
> One of the reasons I don't use packagekit either is I can't see the
> download size and progress if I want to. (other than a windows-like
> bar) What seems strange to me is, why is this feature available with
> yum but not with packagekit?
The
2009/3/29 Leslie Satenstein :
> Error Type:
> File : /usr/lib/yum-plugins/rpm-warm-cache.py, line 32, in
> postreposetup_hook
Remove yum-rpm-warm-cache, it's broken.
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On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 11:44 -0700, Les wrote:
> Error Type:
> Error Value: rpmdb open failed
Does this go away after a reboot?
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On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:01 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> nVidia binary driver in use
If you report it as a bug, it'll be ignored.
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On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 21:20 -0800, john wendel wrote:
> I found that "yum remove gstreamer\*" worked great on my box. And I
> don't use pulseaudio, just configure things to connect directly to
> alsa. I never skips!
I do yum remove xorg-x11-\*.
The terminal never shows me the busy cursor.
Seri
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:36 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> That stuff affects setuid, i.e. where you're giving out blanket
> permission to *anyone* to run code as root.
Right.
> What we're talking about in this thread is somebody who knows the root
> password logging in as root on their own machine
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:53 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> Well, if you can not trust a GUI then logging in as a user won't help
> either. Once that user invokes superuser powers there is no difference
> between him/her and root.
Incorrect. If the dialog stays as the user process (non-root) it can
commun
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 10:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> I'm sure you (Richard) know all this,
> but other readers might not, so I'm saving you the work of
> replying. ;-) )
Thanks! :-)
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On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:47 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> And Dick.
My name is Richard.
> You are not being helpful. Please stop being a dickhead. I am a big
> boy.
Then please read the documentation, rather than insulting me on mailing
lists. You're not exactly showing yourself to be an adult w
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:21 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> It does not stop me from doing what I want to do. It just makes it more
> difficult and time-consuming. It does not actually enhance security in
> any meaningful way. And it disrespects me by implying that I effectively
> do not have the
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 04:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> bruce wrote:
> > just saw this thread. so, is there a way/solution to allow a "root" user
> > to use the gui/gnome/package update app
>
> You need to patch both PolicyKit and gnome-packagekit.
> PolicyKit patch here: https://bugzilla.red
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:16 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> What's the difference whether the package got
> installed by root or via "su"?
No difference. The difference is that if you're loading a GUI to do it,
you're running 500,000 lines of code as root in an untrusted
environment.
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On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:03 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Clicking on the link gave the usual 'what do you want to do' message.
> Clicking install raised a warning about installing as root. I clicked
> continueand got a message that I 'didn't have permission to
> continue' (or words to that
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 12:55 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> How would this work exactly in my case, since I would be downloading
> the updates / new packages on Ubuntu?
You can't do it with cross distro versions. You're best best woul dbe to
use a fedora live CD.
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On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:49 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> I am getting a new desktop probably today, and is going to install F10
> on it. However my problem is I don't have an internet connection at
> home. So is there a way to apply updates? I did find some suggestions
> in the archives. Most said to
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 22:36 +0100, DB wrote:
> I just did the latest batch of F9 PackageKit updates - with disastrous
> effect! (See attached list)
I don't see how applying the updates removed yum. Did you try removing
yum manually?
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On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 20:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Fedora and Foresight as the primary one. Ubuntu, OpenSUSE are adopting
> it over a period of time. A number of other smaller ones as well.
> Feel free to look up packagekit list for details.
Agree. Other distros are adopting all of it, som
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 01:44 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Why? Because on Linux, you install as root (you have to), and then
> the package is getting run as the root user.
No.
> Apart from the security
> implications of that, you don't normaly run the application as root
> (unless you practice bad comput
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 21:56 +0100, Mark wrote:
> Cross posted to the devel list because it's for the next fedora
> version (currently in development thus the devel list)
Please don't cross post like this. Decisions like this don't come from
people doing +1 or -1 on mailing lists, sorry.
Richard.
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 19:43 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> ight after I groupinstalled XFCE, yum did an update which resulted in
> the following error with instructions to report it.
You need to file a bug in bugzilla. Thanks.
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On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:18 +0100, Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > You probably need to file a bug about this. I normally add exactarch=1
> > in my yum.conf file, and I might even argue we should do this my
> > default.
>
> I w
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 15:15 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> look at this http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html
> scroll down to the part for filters. It seems the architecture thing
> is not supported because of yum. Or does it? I don't know enough to
> comment. Mayb someone can enlighten on this?
Y
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:25 +0100, Mark wrote:
> In my opinion the default policies should be set in a way that you can
> do normal thing (using apps) without any messages. you get them when a
> app is gonna change something on the system.
The default policy is secure. If you want to change the de
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 17:10 -0500, Dan Book wrote:
> The argument could be made that any time a key is being imported,
> authorization had to have been given to install packages in the first
> place, probably a few seconds ago.
No, you were agreeing to installing a signed file in the first prompt.
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 21:40 +0100, Mark wrote:
> I'm using package kit now to try and get used to it but it has some
> major unexpected annoyances.
> It where 2 issues when i started writing this but after the first line
> here mplayer was done installing.. the message that follows is No. 3
> now i
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:04 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Well here is my experience:
> rpm -i PackageKit-0.3.12-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
> gnome-packagekit-0.3.12-3.fc9.i386.rpm
PackageKit has many sub packages. You want to download them all, and
then install with -Fvh
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On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 09:24 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I don't know aabout the F10 versions of thewse PakageKit rpms but as I
> keep pointing out the F9 versions cannot be installed due to missing
> dependencies. Is there any help out there for us F9 people?
I pushed an update yesterday to stab
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:40 -0600, John Perry wrote:
> failed to get a TID: A security policy in place prevents this sender
> from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus
> configuration file (rejected message had interface
> "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction" member "SetLocal
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 17:30 +0100, merogringo wrote:
> Sorry for not replying sooner. I got it back and working for the most part.
> Still have another issue when installing software is that I get the following
> error:
>
> Missing security signature
>
> The package is not signed by a trusted
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 13:34 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> I ran the yum command as root and it reported no errors. But when I
> switched back to X-windows there was yet another error popup reporting
> update PackageKit failed to reset the client. I'm getting that popup
> window in bunches of 3 for t
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 22:41 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> Should we update to them using "yum update"? Or is there some other
> way that this issue needs to be approached?
yum update should work.
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On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:03 +, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> The problem will clear when the corrected RPMs get pushed to the repos
> in the next couple of days.
Just waiting to be pushed:
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-0.3.12-1.fc10,gnome-packagekit-0.3.12-1.fc10,kpackagekit-0.3.1
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:23 +, Dave Cross wrote:
> It's the kind of issue that will probably sort itself out in a day or
> two as the correct packages get pushed out.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-0.3.12-1.fc10,gnome-packagekit-0.3.12-1.fc10,kpackagekit-0.3.1-9.fc10
Richar
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 11:19 +0100, Vnpenguin wrote:
> I think Fedora's repos need that, not me personally :-)
Heh, you know what I mean :-) Should sync to the repo tonight.
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On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:44 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
> >> gnome-packagekit-0.3.9-8.fc10.i386 from fedora has depsolving
> problems
> >> --> Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-glib.so.10 is needed by
> >> package gnome-packagekit-0.3.9-8.fc10.i386 (fedora)
> >> Error: Missing Dependency: libpack
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:09 +0100, Vnpenguin wrote:
> Hi,
> I can't update FC10. Here is error:
You need this:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-0.3.12-1.fc10,gnome-packagekit-0.3.12-1.fc10,kpackagekit-0.3.1-9.fc10
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On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:07 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I saw the messages of others having this problem and read the links
> you
> posted above. The fixes mentioned seem to be for f10. Are there
> similar
> fixews for f9?
Waiting to be signed:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 09:16 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> The update error is actuallly:
>
> --ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error
> on :1.26:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place
> prevents this sender fro
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 05:12 -0600, Steve Berg wrote:
> It's not just Fedora 10. I'm seeing similar errors in 9. It started
> after I ran a yum update which picked up dbus-1.2.6.1.
Yes, the dodgy dbus (tm) went into F9 too.
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On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 01:12 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> New in Fedora 10:
>
> gconfd-2: no process killed
> ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.108:/org/freedesktop/
> PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place
> prev
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 00:00 -0200, Martín Marqués wrote:
> Same here on F9 after latest security update of dbus.
There's a lot of fallout due to the DBUS update, upstart, PackageKit,
avahi, DeviceKit, etc. I've built a new PackageKit for F10, and Colin
did the same for F9. See
https://bugzilla.red
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 13:20 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
> Similar with some of the graphical messages that come out of
> PackageKit: this morning, it said "resolving dependencies" and got
> stuck with an error "Could not resolve dependencies". I prefer yum
> anyday.
PackageKit uses yum to do the d
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:37 -0500, lanas wrote:
> I'm suprised this packagekit-whatever default behaviour went into
> production w/o anyone raising a red light. Even if it's a bug. truly
> surprising.
Not a bug, quite deliberate. PackageKit depending on preupgrade would
have made the install med
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 15:43 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Couldn't dependency resolution for multiple packages be done
> psuedo-parallel when doing updates or installs?
No, yum explodes in several hundred pieces if you try to try to use
multiple threads. I don't even think rpm is threadsafe.
Rich
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:06 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Does anybody have some tips for me?
Google is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
Richard.
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On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 14:04 +0100, Tore Anderson wrote:
> Many settings are not adjusted when (dis)connecting mains:
> - /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
> - /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy
> - /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/tx_power
> - Hard drive APM (hdparm -B)
> - Various tricks to
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 06:08 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I haven't verified whether the new packagekit update waiting in
> updates-testing repository does this as well.
It should, but it's completely untested. I can't really test this until
F10 is released. Then I'll think about pushing it to f
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:41 +, Croombe F. Pensom wrote:
> I wonder if anyone else has had similar troubles. My main objection is
> that, to use Add/Remove Software F9 always goes onto the web for a
> mirror and this chews up connect time (for which I am charged through
> the nose after a certai
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 05:40 -0800, Ajit Warrier wrote:
> I removed packagekit because it kept popping up errors on my screen (I
> know, I should have tried to fix that instead!)
You want to try PackageKit in updates-testing. It's much never than
0.2.x. Also, you need to file bugs if you want somet
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