Either of these approaches could be interesting, but it would be nice to
give the users a measure of control. The second approach sounds like it
will do that, although still not quite as convenient or familiar as the
Windows Update behavior. It seems as if wpkg-gp is making good progress
in t
Brent,
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Brent A Nelson wrote:
> As things stand now, we've been reluctant to upgrade large packages (say,
> Office 2007->2010), as this would be applied when they turn on their
> computers, and they might have to wait an hour before they can use their
> machines.
Once you have those features, will you be adding support where a
non-privileged user could potentially launch a wpkg upgrade while logged
in? Perhaps much like Windows/Microsoft updates, where it could check to
see if there are any changes every so often, and then let the user know
what changes
Hi, I have been really busy lately, but today I started working on wpkg-gp
0.6 again, which is a rewrite of it all, needed to be able to scale a bit
more like:
- Being able to run as another user
- Being able to elevate privileges (needed for being able to reboot when
needed) (a real showstopper wi
