So I reported this bug back in October 2012, but it has had zero
attention paid:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863592
it seems like kind of a significant bug, and it got into the release of
F18, and it's still in F19. Is anyone ever going to get around to
dealing with it?
The problem is that the "Important updates are available" notification
launches the *online* update tool. If our story is that offline updates
are the Way To Go for 'normal' users - which is certainly what
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates seems to be
saying - then that's inconsistent. It seems like once the 'Install
updates and restart' bit was done people just kinda figured the feature
was done, without considering how interaction with gnome-pk should be
handled. Note the item "Update gnome-packagekit to support offline
updates" under 'Scope' is not marked as 'done', but the feature is
listed as 100% complete.
There's an implication on the feature page that there should be a
distinction drawn between updates of 'OS components' (which should be
offline) and 'application updates and installations' (which should still
be possible online), but there's no indication this has actually been
implemented, and in my testing, the update notification pops up and
calls gnome-packagekit even when the update package set contains the
kernel, or systemd, or anything like that.
It just seems like the intersection between gnome-pk and offline updates
isn't really done yet, and needs to get finished off...
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