On 10/9/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:52 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > 1) Does yum-updatesd still block yum and piruit? Causes newbies some headaches. > > You can't have multiple things doing transactions at the same time. It > just _can't_ be guaranteed to work. Both yum and pirut should now let > you easily retry (or exit out). Also, the main reason things were > getting blocked was deadlocking of yum-updatesd in threading land. This > can't really happen now. Forgive my ignorance, but is it not possible to have yum work in essentially a read-only mode which would allow checking for updates... but would _not_ block other applications> > > 2) Does the GUI (pup?) work in KDE? > > pup has always worked in KDE... the applet should work in KDE now if I > remember the bug correctly[1]. If not, please file something. Thanks... I got to try pup in Gnome on CentOS5... it was quite nice.. hadn't used Gnome for years. > > 3) Is there a silent download, interactive install mode? > > Yep, just like always. But should be more reliable now. Cool. I take it RFEs on the interface are welcome? > Jeremy > > [1] A GtkStatusIcon that started out hidden would never show up in the > KDE panel when you made the GtkStatusIcon visible. > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
