So Paul ping'd me today and had an idea: what if yum had dbus knowledge so that when it found out about an update it could signal the applet to start throbbing and being annoying. I said. "umm, dbus IN yum?, umm, erg, <shudder>" things like that. Then we talked some more and realized that: 1. we don't need to put it in yum 2. we might need to do something else that's kinda special. up2date has that rhnsd that runs to poll rhn and find out about updates and other things to do. This is all cool and things but it's really only useful to up2date on RHEL. So what if yum/pup/etc had a daemon that could, optionally, update the metadata information from the repositories and announce a dbus event to the system? rhnsd is a C daemon that runs rhn_check which is a python program. It wouldn't be too much work to do the same for something in yum. We could write a metadata_check script that uses the yum python module and wraps a different callback around the metadata caching routines. once the metadata is updated, if updates exists it pushes out a dbus event for each update to alert anything listening that there are updates. This way yum doesn't have to know anything about dbus and everyone is happy. So is this something that would be interesting for fedora? What do folks think? What other items could benefit from dbus notification that an update is present? -sv -- Fedora-config-list mailing list Fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-config-list