Bug 863592
Summary: | GNOME and PackageKit update notification still triggers the online update install process, not the new offline update install process | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Adam Williamson <awilliam> |
Component: | gnome-packagekit | Assignee: | Richard Hughes <hughsient> |
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 19 | CC: | collura, fmuellner, hughsient, lmacken, maxamillion, mcatanzaro+wrong-account-do-not-cc, mclasen, mishu, notting, otaylor, rhughes, samkraju, walters |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | CommonBugs |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: | RejectedNTH https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F18_bugs#update-notification-online | ||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2013-11-18 13:24:23 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Adam Williamson
2012-10-05 23:39:30 UTC
There are two upstream reports relating to this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687149 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683745 I'm proposing this as NTH, as it would be nice to have the update behaviour consistent and as-planned-for-Final in Beta, but it's not really release blocking: updating does actually _work_, just the user experience is somewhat confusing between offline and online at present. Discussed at 2012-11-05 QA meeting acting as an NTH review meeting. Agreed this is rejected as NTH as it's now too close to go/no-go to be poking at this mechanism. For the record: this is still valid in F18 Final. Update notifications pop up the online update installer - even for a set of updates which includes kernel and selinux-policy so it's not just doing it for updates that are 'safe' to install online. Still valid in F19. Is anyone ever going to be concerned about this? It's a substantial polish problem with our default desktop. Bug #907041 is also a big usability problem with offline updates in F18 (though that one might be fixed for F19, not sure, and it wouldn't matter as much if this one was resolved). Offline updates are very cool but they are NOT ready for a stable distro - it's one of the things I'm not very successful at explaining away when introducing friends to Fedora. (In contrast, openSUSE GNOME has wisely chosen to disable offline updates until the feature matures.) Other common reasons for offline updates failing, off the top of my head: * An update was requested but no packages are available for update * An update was requested but no Internet connection was available Perhaps F19's (but not Rawhide's) default PackageKit config /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf should specify WritePreparedUpdates=false - I think we should use the defaults which provide the highest level of quality even though it's sad to disable a feature. This is fixed up for GNOME 3.10 in Fedora 20 as things stand, I think all avenues have now been covered and trigger offline updates. If there's no chance of F18 and F19 being retrospectively cleaned up, we could probably close this. Let's make it NEXTRELEASE to make it clearer that we fixed it, just not for F18/F19. |