On 12/29/2016 07:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 12/23/2016 11:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > In gnome-shell if I go to restart (upper right corner, power button > > icon) I have an 'install pending software updates' now for two days, > > but there's no other notification that there are pending software > > updates. > > > > Is this change in behavior expected? Seems like a bug. Maybe I'll > > leave it alone for a couple more days and see if it continues to > > accumulate updates without any notification. > > gnome-software notifies only once per week as per design (or more often > when there are pending security updates available), but at the same time > it does prepare the offline update as soon as it finds new updates so > it's possible to install the updates manually more often if you want to, > either through the gnome-shell shutdown dialog or from gnome-software > itself. > > I don't think there's been a behaviour change here, unless there's a bug > somewhere of course. > > > A side effect of this, is multiple package versions are being downloaded > but not installed; only the latest version is installed. a.) this is > consuming bandwidth for no purpose and b.) PackageKit only removes the > downloaded packages that it installs, anything not installed remains > behind to take up space, never being deleted. Yes, item b) is bad. It's caused a lot of comment over on the users list. IMHO, packagekit should replace any older versions of packages it downloads so that only the latest version of a package is held in the cache. There's no logical reason to hold obsoleted packages unless you have a desire to be a pack rat (or should that be "packagekit rat"?) Alternately, make holding the old packages optional (with "purge" being the default) or doing something like dnf's "installonly_limit" thing. Not everyone has huge disks to hold masses of outdated content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Never put off 'til tommorrow what you can forget altogether! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
