On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/2016 07:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlem...@gmail.com > > <mailto:kalevlem...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 12/23/2016 11:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > In gnome-shell if I go to restart (upper right corner, power button > > > icon) I have an 'install pending software updates' now for two > days, > > > but there's no other notification that there are pending software > > > updates. > > > > > > Is this change in behavior expected? Seems like a bug. Maybe I'll > > > leave it alone for a couple more days and see if it continues to > > > accumulate updates without any notification. > > > > gnome-software notifies only once per week as per design (or more > often > > when there are pending security updates available), but at the same > time > > it does prepare the offline update as soon as it finds new updates so > > it's possible to install the updates manually more often if you want > to, > > either through the gnome-shell shutdown dialog or from gnome-software > > itself. > > > > I don't think there's been a behaviour change here, unless there's a > bug > > somewhere of course. > > > > > > A side effect of this, is multiple package versions are being downloaded > > but not installed; only the latest version is installed. a.) this is > > consuming bandwidth for no purpose and b.) PackageKit only removes the > > downloaded packages that it installs, anything not installed remains > > behind to take up space, never being deleted. > > Yes, item b) is bad. It's caused a lot of comment over on the users > list. IMHO, packagekit should replace any older versions of packages > it downloads so that only the latest version of a package is held in > the cache. There's no logical reason to hold obsoleted packages unless > you have a desire to be a pack rat (or should that be "packagekit rat"?) > > Alternately, make holding the old packages optional (with "purge" being > the default) or doing something like dnf's "installonly_limit" thing. > Not everyone has huge disks to hold masses of outdated content. > Seems complicated. I think whatever update checking frequency PK/gnome-software is set to use, that it commits to downloading what it needs at that time, installs those items, and cleans them up. I think problem a.) is what sets up problem b.), and it'd be easier to just stop downloading stuff it has no intention of even installing. -- Chris Murphy
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