On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:07:27 +0000 Arthur Dent <misc.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 12:31 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or > > > manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method of informing you > > > by means of an applet when updates are available. > > > > I wasn't aware that this had changed. Before F16 I only ever used yum > > directly (and still do a lot of the time), but now I see a "gear wheel" > > icon on the KDE panel when updates are available, and choose to apply > > them via the GUI when I feel like it. How is this different from what > > you describe? > > > > poc > > > Sorry - Should have pointed out - I'm running Gnome. With Gnome 3 there > is no icon on the panel (as there was with Gnome 2 and Fedora < 15). > > The only possible settings are found in Applications->Other->Software > Settings. This brings up a dialogue box entitled "Software Update > Preferences" in which there are only 2 drop-down boxes. The first says > "Check for updates" and the options are "Hourly, daily, weekly, never" > and the second is "Automatically Install" and the options are "All > updates, Only security updates, Nothing" > > Up to now I had it set on Hourly / Automatically Install. This meant > that it would check for updates every hour and automatically install > them without further reference to me. This was usually OK, and I would > often turn on my machine to find I had a shiny new kernel or version of > Firefox etc. But I didn't realise that I would be able to turn off the > machine (without warning) whilst updates were in progress. > > Hence the mess I am now in... > > I will now have to set the options to never / never and remember to run > yum update manually. In my opinion a retrograde step... > > Anyway - any ideas how I fix the mess? > > Thanks > > Mark > Hi, I run into something similar a few months ago. The only method I've found to fix it was to uninistall one by one every single package using "rpm" without checking the dependencies and re-install it right after. Probably there is another way but I don't know it. Regarding the settings of the auto update, I've set "check for updates" to "Daily", "Automatically install" to "Nothing" and, when updates are available, I get a notification in the system tray of Gnome 3 Panel (Gnome shell is disabled). Hope this can help. Ciao -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
