Re: Why GUI software update tool is broken for me

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On 06/15/2016 01:09 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 12:31 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> Of course, this comes with its own headaches, since of course if you
>> are using
>> an encrypted drive, you need to enter your password twice: once to
>> start the
>> update and once for the post-update reboot. A while ago I was working
>> on a patch
>> to PackageKit that would skip the second reboot and just `systemd
>> isolate
>> default.target` after the upgrade unless the kernel (or other early
>> boot package
>> like dracut) was updated. I never finished it, but I could try to dig
>> it out and
>> pass it on to someone who is interested in continuing it.
> 
> If anyone wants to pick up this work, that would be hugely appreciated,
> as it would allow us to enable full disk encryption by default.
> 

Well, as I alluded to in another post, I think the disk encryption case is
probably better solved by investing in the development and stabilization of
Tang[1]. Then you would not need to enter the password manually at all.

[1] https://github.com/npmccallum/tang/blob/master/README.md

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