On 10/9/07, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:01 -0400, Jeremy Katz 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. > > First experience of every new Fedora user ever after clean installation > is pop-up message about that the packages are available, and then > response that "software information" is blocked when he selects to view > the updates. Awful. I faced the little popup onCentos5/Gnome for my first time.. I didn't run into a blocking scenario when I clicked on it. -- 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