-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 hi You guys are awesome! If all I've heard is true, gnome 3.18 will be a milestone, both in terms of accessibility and in terms of new functionality. I can't wait! Thanks Kendell clark Kalev Lember wrote: > On 08/08/2015 10:18 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 17:54 +0930, Andrew Walton wrote: >>> Quite a few people have told me that packagekit doesn't do it's >>> own downloads but here's a quick experiment you can try that >>> says this is not entirely accurate. >> >> Of course it does its own downloads! And even if it didn't, it >> would still be harsh on bandwidth: simply checking for updates >> requires downloading new repo metadata, which can be big on its >> own. > > To clear this up, the above is both true and untrue in a way :) > > It's gnome-software that drives the periodic downloads, but the > actual downloading is done through PackageKit. > > The daily metadata downloading can be currently turned off with a > super-secret gsettings key. It was originally only meant for the > live cd use case where we needed to turn off metadata downloads in > order to avoid filling up the ramdisk, but I have heard that people > have found this useful for other cases as well. > > Periodic metadata downloads can be disabled with: gsettings set > org.gnome.software download-updates false > > and reset to the default value (re-enabled) with: gsettings reset > org.gnome.software download-updates > > Furthermore, there's a new NetworkManager API in the works that > allows apps to determine if connections are 'metered' to avoid > downloading updates. This API actually landed in NetworkManager a > few weeks ago, and there's a plan to make use of it in > gnome-software. > > Look out for improvements in this area :) > > > Hope this clears things up, Kalev > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVxptxAAoJEGYgJ5/kqBTdd/4P/iclSMFnlJXGFGPpyJFcpE0W pRY3J2EkFsZkQQ+gdLFzp/MeS70DFshZih+k5xfWFTboIBqpP8124IfP3+KuSfwJ x6s7x6eJFZou+UNNCnxLLFD6Yun5YFUejSKIr6UoEkBW216ykpMqPeIlwNJNdiao uXsmhdQjETMNssUcERHGw8yoF5wA8SLoDuUN6WHZHJhg+lG77edn3ljEmuLNm4DX UujfiJb25ZMZ8WKfDcfpHECt268NhjvvTqL86cE4F9FL80RKlM55rdp1is16iZHz H4vCOqcny/6ox+GvEnw878RRO4VaWIJ09uSQRn3QIypgvt9pTRSujG5s969nfymZ gg+GBlneWl1dyTbsuayeT1MTDr+DMj0S3uJkcQH47Sb0fv614T7igzAexGjTfJR6 2H7MM/mlKH7FaCfJiSaHjY92VYFDauz4C/b9eNy0GVmrbkxGXbdJU4FWEawnsOmp lJ+mA5hbIDBBEJBUyY0BDWcMnw4h3y3FJmAFnATdwCiw5h+gNmpuWhzdIVIpmJ4/ rQW9vUV8W+BtObh9wT1Hj+OuNb64TBisozvtCLDPHqwvSAyYz9kyjJeDxulW0+M0 tlgtdtsyXHGAKOXrL7cafIBdhQspNzVOdyVybDjpDtMRuUDGVTi7LQf45It7lIre qUJhbE2uB4bnUEBlGXfi =nP9F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
