Hello Richard, On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 16:28, Richard Fearn wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any specific packaging guidelines related to software that > has auto update functionality built in? > > I am mainly interested in whether it's allowable to just disable this > at runtime (if the software allows it), or if it needs to be removed > at compile time. I'd say any auto-update code that would try to overwrite what gets installed with rpm should be removed. Fedora provides updates through its repositories. I thought we had a section about "downloaders" somewhere in the Guidelines but I cannot find it at the moment. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
