Hello list, hello again Lennart, I'm trying to make the update experience in GNOME 3.2 much better; at the moment updating core services and libraries whilst everything is running is quite unpredictable and we really just want to update stuff like systemd, dbus and libc in shutdown when the system is in a known and quiet state.
The UI we're going for can be seen in https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/SoftwareUpdates?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=SoftwareUpdates.png So, basically I want to run packagekitd and use plymouth to show the shutdown status. I'm guessing I need to add a file/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.wants/packagekit-updates.service which has: [Unit] Description=Install updates at shutdown using PackageKit DefaultDependencies=no After=sysinit.target Before=shutdown.target console-kit-log-system-start.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/libexec/packagekitd-shutdown And then hope that systemd starts the plymouth shutdown process at the same time. Then in packagekitd-shutdown we send messages to plymouth with what to update the screen with ("Installing update 1 of 3") and then exit for the shutdown process to continue. Note: packagekitd-shutdown will *only* be run if the user chooses the "Shutdown and install updates" option from the user menu (rather than 'Suspend') and if the updates have already been downloaded and put in the system cache. The packagekitd-shutdown process really only does the bare metal update part which is really quite quick unless you're updating 100's of packages. Am I or the right lines, or am I on crack? systemd is still very magic to me. Thanks. Richard. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel