Re: Packagekit background updates

2021-11-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2021-11-20 at 22:22 +, Reon Beon via users wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 04:57 +, Reon Beon via users wrote: > > > > Do what? Remember that HyperKitty doesn't quote anything by default > > and > > most people here are seeing your post in their mail reader. > > > > poc That quo

Re: Packagekit background updates

2021-11-20 Thread Reon Beon via users
> On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 04:57 +, Reon Beon via users wrote: > > Do what? Remember that HyperKitty doesn't quote anything by default and > most people here are seeing your post in their mail reader. > > poc packagekit updates ___

Re: Packagekit background updates

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 04:57 +, Reon Beon via users wrote: > I wish it would automatically do it on reboot/shutdown. Do what? Remember that HyperKitty doesn't quote anything by default and most people here are seeing your post in their mail reader. poc _

Re: Packagekit background updates

2021-11-17 Thread Reon Beon via users
I wish it would automatically do it on reboot/shutdown. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-

Packagekit background updates

2021-11-17 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Hello, tl;dr is packagekit supposed to download updates in the background? On Fedora Workstation, I have long been in the habit of installing updates through Gnome Software every time before I shut down my computer. Recently, however, I decided to see how the automatic background updates work

Re: Problem reporting/Mate Screensaver crash/Packagekit crash. No answer ?

2021-09-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 9/26/21 6:10 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: Quite right this is a type error !  In the application when I choose Applications /System Tools /Problem Reporting the URL is spelled correctly .  What now ? Has it something to do with Bugzilla ?  I think it is very important to report problems so t

Re: Problem reporting/Mate Screensaver crash/Packagekit crash. No answer ?

2021-09-26 Thread Ger van Dijck
On 9/21/21 11:59 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: When I want to do a Problem Reporting ( Bugzilla ? ) I get the message : https://retrace.fedoraproject .org does not excist ( server error 404 ). Well of course it doesn't. There's a space before the final .org that makes it into an invalid url. Hay

Re: Problem reporting/Mate Screensaver crash/Packagekit crash. No answer ?

2021-09-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 9/21/21 11:59 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: When I want to do a Problem Reporting ( Bugzilla ? ) I get the message : https://retrace.fedoraproject .org does not excist ( server error 404 ). Well of course it doesn't. There's a space before the final .org that makes it into an invalid url.

Problem reporting/Mate Screensaver crash/Packagekit crash. No answer ?

2021-09-21 Thread Ger van Dijck
To all , When I activate the screensaver I get the message " Mate-Screensaver quit unexpectedly". Application crsh Package-Kit : The same message. When this happens ( after a delay of ca. 5 minutes ) I get a blue screen and have to turn off the cumputer by force ; So tturn hardware OFF. W

Problem reporting / Mate-Screensaver crash / Packagekit crach.

2021-09-11 Thread Ger van Dijck
To all, When I activate the screesaver I get the message : Mate-Screensaver quit unexpectedly : Application crash, Packagekit idem : Application crash . When this happens ( after a delay of 5 minutes ) I get a blue screen and have to turn off the system by force , so hardware OFF. When

PackageKit-command-not-found giving repo_add_solv() has failed

2021-07-04 Thread George N. White III
Bug 1979048 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979048> TLDNR: Fedora 34, updated from Fedora 33 and using zsh. System has been updated using dnf. zsh uses: PackageKit-command-not-found.x86_64 : Ask the user to install command line programs automatically % xindy zsh:

Re: Packagekit: too many packages to process

2020-11-19 Thread Richard Hughes
der of magnitude. https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/issues Richard. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US

Packagekit: too many packages to process

2020-11-19 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
e from texlive. I can, of course, update with dnf, but I was wondering if there is a way to raise the limit of packages packagekit is willing to process so I wouldn't have to worry about it? -- Terveisin / Regards, Matti Pulkkinen ___ users maili

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-03 Thread Rex Dieter
system, with 147M for f26, which I have am not yet >> running. When I do upgrade, it will be via dnf system-upgrade, so the >> PackageKit data does nothing for me. >> >> Alternatively, you can remove PackageKit and gnome-software if you >> don't use them: >&g

Re: F27: how to disable (or remove) packagekit to download updates

2017-12-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 10:18 +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno sab, 02/12/2017 alle 19.21 -0500, Todd Zullinger ha scritto: > > I don't make use of PackageKit and > > Gnome Software, so I "solve" this for myself by removing those > > packages rather than t

Re: F27: how to disable (or remove) packagekit to download updates

2017-12-03 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno sab, 02/12/2017 alle 19.21 -0500, Todd Zullinger ha scritto: > I don't make use of PackageKit and > Gnome Software, so I "solve" this for myself by removing those > packages rather than trying to fix it. This seem is a finally solution. Why not do it for all

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 19:21:55 -0500 Todd Zullinger wrote: While I'm sure some bugs are not viewed by any maintainers, I'd wager that's far fewer than thoss which are viewed and the maintainer simply lacks enough time to do anything with it. On the other hand there are the b

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 19:21:55 -0500 Todd Zullinger wrote: > While I'm sure some bugs are not viewed by any maintainers, I'd wager > that's far fewer than thoss which are viewed and the maintainer simply > lacks enough time to do anything with it. On the other hand there are the bugs which are on

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Todd Zullinger
, so as a reporter we can only guess. It would be ideal if all bug reports led to fixes, but that's not likely. With this particular PackageKit issue, I think that it might be lingering for longer because the users most affected are less likely to be folks that would dig into the probl

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread stan
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 12:35:51 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier to mask the service and be done with it? Or, > if that prevents it from running when you need it, disable it. You're right. I suppose I should get around to doing that. ___ use

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/02/2017 12:17 PM, stan wrote: You'll also have to move the file kde-org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service to kde-org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service.bak in the /usr/share/dbus-1/services directory if you have kde installed. This will have to be done every time PackageKit is updated, but

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread stan
n I do upgrade, it will be via dnf system-upgrade, so the > PackageKit data does nothing for me. > > Alternatively, you can remove PackageKit and gnome-software if you > don't use them: > > sudo dnf remove PackageKit* gnome-software Another alternative for disabling P

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/02/2017 11:58 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: Not DONTCARE, more "really busy with other stuff". If somebody else figures out a good way to invalidate the cache (probably done in libdnf), I'm happy to review patches and build packages. It can't *all* be on my shoulders, right? Richard That's

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Richard Hughes
Not DONTCARE, more "really busy with other stuff". If somebody else figures out a good way to invalidate the cache (probably done in libdnf), I'm happy to review patches and build packages. It can't *all* be on my shoulders, right? Richard On 2 Dec 2017 19:00, "Joe Zeff" wrote: > On 12/02/2017 1

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/02/2017 10:54 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Both tickets have been around for a long time without any fixes, unfortunately. Judging by the lack of response on some bugzillas I've entered, the appropriate resolution would be Closed, DON'TCARE. ___

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Todd Zullinger
Dario Lesca wrote: How to I can disable packagekid to download update? I do not use these packages downloaded uselessly from packagekit into /var/cache/PackageKit/*/*/updates/... because I run sometimes when I want and can, after, reboot, "sudo dnf update". Unfortunately this co

F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-02 Thread Dario Lesca
How to I can disable packagekid to download update? I do not use these packages downloaded uselessly from packagekit into /var/cache/PackageKit/*/*/updates/... because I run sometimes when I want and can, after, reboot, "sudo dnf update". Unfortunately this command (dnf) do not use the

Never ending stream of PackageKit messages

2017-09-06 Thread Juan Orti Alcaine
Hi, My journal is full of these PackageKit messages, one of them each second and never stop. Anyone knows how to stop them? I have opened this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479665 sep 06 21:27:18 xenon PackageKit[32714]: get-updates transaction /1315687_cdacdeee from uid

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
w Fedora 24, now 25, I do this step. > > sudo systemctl mask dnf-makecache dnf-makecache.timer packagekit > packagekit-offline-update > sudo systemctl stop dnf-makecache dnf-makecache.timer packagekit > packagekit-offline-update > > rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/* > > And a

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-28 Thread Tim
Dario Lesca: >> Why not use the same cache of dnf? Matthew Miller: > That is work in progress. Both systems use the cache a little > differently and grew up independently, so there is some work to align > them. Separate caching for the metadata, but pooled caching (and automated purging control)

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 03:21:06PM +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: > > That cache _is_ the packagekit database. You can remove it safely. > Why not use the same cache of dnf? That is work in progress. Both systems use the cache a little differently and grew up independently, so there is som

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-28 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 27/12/2016 alle 11.42 -0500, Matthew Miller ha scritto: > That cache _is_ the packagekit database. You can remove it safely. Why not use the same cache of dnf? In this way when someone use dnf install something the cache will be removed. IMHO Two cache of same (BIG!) things

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-27 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 08:58:46PM +, Schlaegel wrote: > What would be a good course of action? > I'm reluctant to use root to just delete the files, assuming that they are > in some PackageKit database somewhere. That cache _is_ the packagekit database. You can remove it safel

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-27 Thread Dario Lesca
e dnf-makecache.timer packagekit > packagekit-offline-update  > sudo systemctl stop dnf-makecache dnf-makecache.timer packagekit > packagekit-offline-update  > > > rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/* > > > > And all still work. Another way to avoid that PackageKit do

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-27 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno lun, 26/12/2016 alle 20.58 +, Schlaegel ha scritto: > What would be a good course of action? After install a new Fedora 24, now 25, I do this step. sudo systemctl mask dnf-makecache dnf-makecache.timer packagekit packagekit-offline-update  sudo systemctl stop dnf-makecache

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/26/2016 04:21 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 20:58 +, Schlaegel wrote: After a month of updates, I started seeing warnings about the size of the var partition. Somehow /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata is still there and very large. I tried `sudo pkcon re

Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
t; > I then worked through an issue with the stock repositories and packages > causing my Nvidia graphics to lock up, and I eventually had a working > system. > > After a month of updates, I started seeing warnings about the size of the > var partition. Somehow /var/cache/PackageKit/

3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

2016-12-26 Thread Schlaegel
causing my Nvidia graphics to lock up, and I eventually had a working system. After a month of updates, I started seeing warnings about the size of the var partition. Somehow /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata is still there and very large. I tried `sudo pkcon refresh force -c -1` but I still have 3.3

/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

2016-03-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On my Fedora 23 systems, /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages is full of .rpm files. For example, 2.7G on my desktop. /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages has some too. "sudo dnf clean packages" doesn't seem to change this. What does it change? What is

Re: /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

2016-03-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: stan Thanks for your useful response. But there are still things that puzzle/annoy me. | On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:22:36 -0400 (EDT) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: | | > On my Fedora 23 | > systems, /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages is full | > of .rpm

Re: /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

2016-03-19 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:22:36 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: > On my Fedora 23 > systems, /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages is full > of .rpm files. For example, 2.7G on my desktop. > > /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages has some

Re: /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

2016-03-18 Thread stan
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:14:29 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: > Isn't dnf the user interface to PackageKit? I always disable PackageKit, so I'm probably not the best person to answer this. But, my understanding is that PackageKit operates independently of dnf

Re: /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata gets very big

2016-03-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/03/16 22:15, stan wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:14:29 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: Isn't dnf the user interface to PackageKit? I always disable PackageKit, so I'm probably not the best person to answer this. But, my understanding is that PackageKit op

Re: Where is the apper/packagekit log?

2015-10-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2015-10-24 at 08:29 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 24 October 2015 at 06:57, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Where does packageKit keep its log > > It should all be in the systemd journal. And so it is. Thanks. Now all I have to do is learn the right way to extract th

Re: Where is the apper/packagekit log?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Hughes
On 24 October 2015 at 06:57, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Where does packageKit keep its log It should all be in the systemd journal. Richard. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Where is the apper/packagekit log?

2015-10-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Where does packageKit, which is (I assume) invoked by the KDE apper program, keep its log. The log can be viewed in apper, but I would like to have it in text form, so I can edit and search it.The Fedora "User Guide - Managing Software" claims "Every completed transaction recor

"software" packagekit - install without restart?

2015-06-12 Thread Steven Stern
Can I configure packagekit so when it pops up that there are updates, I can click install WITHOUT restarting the system? -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

Re: systemd service spawning packagekit daemon

2013-08-29 Thread poma
On 29.08.2013 16:21, chandan wrote: > Hello all, > > On Fedora 19, the packagekit daemon runs once in while in the background. > Can somebody please inform me about the systemd service that is responsible > for spawning the packagekit daemon? > > - chandan > http

systemd service spawning packagekit daemon

2013-08-29 Thread chandan
Hello all, On Fedora 19, the packagekit daemon runs once in while in the background. Can somebody please inform me about the systemd service that is responsible for spawning the packagekit daemon? - chandan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) possible problem

2013-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 19:26 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Quicksort wrote: > > > > Platform: *Fedora 17 x64* > > > > > > Hello everybody, > > > > Usually, updates frequency is high. But for about one week, none. > > > > How can I check my

Re: YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) possible problem

2013-02-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Quicksort wrote: Platform: *Fedora 17 x64* Hello everybody, Usually, updates frequency is high. But for about one week, none. How can I check my installed YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) still correctly does its work ? And what should I do if it does not ? I have cron run "yum -y --downloa

Re: YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) possible problem ("SOLVED" )

2013-02-21 Thread Quicksort
On 02/21/2013 11:17 PM, Quicksort wrote: Platform: *Fedora 17 x64* Hello everybody, Usually, updates frequency is high. But for about one week, none. How can I check my installed YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) still correctly does its work ? And what should I do if it does not ? Thanks

YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) possible problem

2013-02-21 Thread Quicksort
Platform: *Fedora 17 x64* Hello everybody, Usually, updates frequency is high. But for about one week, none. How can I check my installed YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) still correctly does its work ? And what should I do if it does not ? Thanks. -- users mailing list users

F18: yum complains "Unable to send message to PackageKit"

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
So, I keep getting this message: Unable to send message to PackageKit when I go into yum. Looking through the archives, it was suggested that one should have PackageKit-yum and PackageKit-yum-plugin if not, we should install. I did have it, but I went an did a sudo yum reinstall

Re: F18 "Unable to send message to PackageKit"

2013-01-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:42:29 -0500 Fedora User wrote: > Yum keeps complaining. Any ideas what to try or file a bug against? Nothing, it usually means one of PackageKit yum deps is missing. sudo rpm -qa | grep PackageKit-yum you should have: PackageKit-yum and PackageKit-yum-plugin if

F18 "Unable to send message to PackageKit"

2013-01-15 Thread Fedora User
Yum keeps complaining. Any ideas what to try or file a bug against? While I am at it, I have an incomplete yum transaction that I do not want to complete. Does anyone know how to get yum to forget about it? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

PackageKit -nogpgcheck?

2012-09-19 Thread Frank Murphy
How do I turn off the requiremnt for PackageKit to have signed pkgs? -- Regards, Frank "Jack of all, fubars" -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidel

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Haney
On 03/27/2012 02:59 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote: On 27 March 2012 19:54, Mark Haney Sounds like you've hit the same bug myself and several others have. Is so, it's not PackageKit causing the problem so much as Apper repeatedly calling it - about every five minutes or so seems to b

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Hughes
On 27 March 2012 20:00, Richard Shaw wrote: > I think uninstalling apper and the yum PK plugin would probably be > better than ripping out everything PK. Just remove PackageKit-yum-plugin if you don't want PK to check it's caches after each command line action. I agree its a na

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Shaw
ccurately, but it's actually much worse than that. The PackageKit yum plugin causes PK to update after every yum transaction. While this is necessary as PK is used for the GUI updater, I think the default wait time after the last yum transaction is a bit short. I think uninstalling apper and

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
same bug myself and several others have. Is so, it's not PackageKit causing the problem so much as Apper repeatedly calling it - about every five minutes or so seems to be the norm when this happens. If you don't mind doing updates manually, then uninstalling Apper will fix the problem

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Mark Haney
On 03/27/2012 02:45 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 03/27/2012 11:34 AM, Mark Haney wrote: Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me pretty much unable to install any software from the command line? Did I configure something to make it do that? And how in the

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me > pretty much unable to install any software from the command line?  Did I > configure something to make it do that?  And how in the world can I make it >

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 03/27/2012 11:34 AM, Mark Haney wrote: Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me pretty much unable to install any software from the command line? Did I configure something to make it do that? And how in the world can I make it stop? yum remove

WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Mark Haney
Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me pretty much unable to install any software from the command line? Did I configure something to make it do that? And how in the world can I make it stop? -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
endent of the underlying package management system. On > Fedora, it's essentially a GUI for yum, but not the only one. [...snip...] Not only that, but unlike yum (which of course I like and use often), PackageKit is D-Bus aware so it can be responsive to things happening on the desktop, suc

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:33:31 + Andy Blanchard wrote: > PackageKit isn't one of my favourite parts of Fedora, but a lot of the > problems people are having and citing here are not actually to do with > PackageKit but are in fact the fault of Apper. If you don't mind doi

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
PackageKit isn't one of my favourite parts of Fedora, but a lot of the problems people are having and citing here are not actually to do with PackageKit but are in fact the fault of Apper. If you don't mind doing manual updates with yum, then uninstalling Apper might make your life a

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Kevin Martin
On 03/14/2012 11:06 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 03/14/2012 12:10 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > It's an abstraction over various package management and dependency > solving backends. The website has lots o

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2012 12:10 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? It's an abstraction over various package management and dependency solving backends. The website has lots of information: http://www.packagekit.org/

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:56:40 + Ian Malone wrote: > On 14 March 2012 12:40, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > >> What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > > > I could but a sarcastic comme

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 March 2012 12:40, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. > I find it to be the most annoying interface yet in

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:40:12 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. > I find it to be the most annoy

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:10 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > Is it essential? No. > It is used by yum in some way? Other way round. It uses yum. It's an attempt at a "universal" interface that's independent of the underly

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. I find it to be the most annoying interface yet in a long history of annoying interfaces to software package management system

PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? Is it essential? It is used by yum in some way? I'm asking because I get an error message --- Fetch Job Error - Plasma Desktop Shell Unknown error. (Unable to fetch item from backend) --- whe

Re: anyone else seeing gnome-packagekit freeze?

2011-12-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 17:05 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:32:44AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > > In the past few weeks, when you update have you had the tool freeze > > on you after it is finished? I've reported bug 761092 that I can > > reproduce reliabl

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 13:28 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/13/2011 09:21 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > > > > > Indeed so - however it is not unusual for abrt to require pulling in > > several hundred megabytes of debuginfo stuff in order to file a report > > - and I wonder if that might put a

Re: anyone else seeing gnome-packagekit freeze?

2011-12-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Richard Hughes wrote: I think I've found this bug a few hours ago. Could someone try building PK with the upstream commit f8ba469a9d992269ca655dc2c21b995cd877fe15 please? Thanks. Richard, I looked at that commit, but the 0.6 branch does not have the same code so your commit cannot apply to th

Re: anyone else seeing gnome-packagekit freeze?

2011-12-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:32:44AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > In the past few weeks, when you update have you had the tool freeze > on you after it is finished? I've reported bug 761092 that I can > reproduce reliably on three different computers but I haven't seen > anyone else talk abo

Re: anyone else seeing gnome-packagekit freeze?

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Hughes
On 14 December 2011 15:32, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > -Asks for reboot or logout > -The reboot/logout window is not clickable. > -The gpk-update-viewer process is using 100% CPU time. I think I've found this bug a few hours ago. Could someone try building PK with the upstream commit f8ba469a9d9

anyone else seeing gnome-packagekit freeze?

2011-12-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
To those of you that use Fedora 16, Gnome, and use the Software Updates tool: In the past few weeks, when you update have you had the tool freeze on you after it is finished? I've reported bug 761092 that I can reproduce reliably on three different computers but I haven't seen anyone else tal

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/13/2011 09:21 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > > Indeed so - however it is not unusual for abrt to require pulling in > several hundred megabytes of debuginfo stuff in order to file a report > - and I wonder if that might put a significant number of users off and > abandon completing the report at

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/13/2011 06:21 AM, mike cloaked wrote: This may already be inhibiting the provision of some fraction of important abrt entries? It would be interesting to hear other people's view on this aspect? In some cases, that might even be a good thing, IMAO. As I mentioned in another thread, I'm

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote: >> It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going >> to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my >> s

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-12 Thread Steven I Usdansky
abrt-2.0.6-1 managed to do pull down debug info without PackageKit. Not sure what it used -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/13/2011 04:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:42 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote: >>> It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going >>> to re

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:42 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote: > > It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going > > to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my > > s

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-12 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote: > It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going > to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my > system. Just wondering, why the additional requirement? > ABRT will pull do

Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-12 Thread Steven I Usdansky
It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my system. Just wondering, why the additional requirement? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

F14 - PackageKit vice yum update discrepancy

2011-10-25 Thread J B
Hi, This is F14. I tried an update: menu: System-Administration-Software Update (which is PackageKit) ... Transaction error: could not add package update for sane-backends-libs-1.0.22-5.fc14(i686)updates: sane-backends-libs-1.0.22-5.fc14.i686 which means the update process was interrupted and

Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-17 Thread Richard Hughes
On 15 October 2011 17:51, Ardhan Madras wrote: > Sorry, It's actually the router that has CDMA connection. > My FC15 box connected and using it as gateway. The router > connection got slw when PackageKit was running in the FC15. Right, so PackageKit thinks you've g

Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-16 Thread Ardhan Madras
Thats what I was looking for, thanks Frank. Ardhan --- frankl...@gmail.com wrote: From: Frank Murphy To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:04:24 +0100 On 15/10/11 17:51, Ardhan Madras wrote: > Sorry, I

Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/10/11 17:51, Ardhan Madras wrote: > Sorry, It's actually the router that has CDMA connection. > My FC15 box connected and using it as gateway. The router > connection got slw when PackageKit was running in the FC15. > > I want to disable automatic Package

Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-15 Thread Ardhan Madras
Sorry, It's actually the router that has CDMA connection. My FC15 box connected and using it as gateway. The router connection got slw when PackageKit was running in the FC15. I want to disable automatic PackageKit yum update check. Ardhan --- hughsi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-14 Thread Richard Hughes
On 13 October 2011 12:51, Ardhan Madras wrote: >        How to disable PackageKit's yum update that sometime > run in background?, I have very sloow and limited CDMA > internet connection. PackageKit shouldn't be doing background operations when on mobile broad

Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-14 Thread Ardhan Madras
Hi Sam, Unfortunately the package is not installed. To be more clear here the process of PackageKit. [root@sandybridge Downloads]# ps ax | grep yum 7185 ?SN 0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yum Any pointer how to disable this automatic background process

Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ardhan Madras writes: Hi All, How to disable PackageKit's yum update that sometime run in background?, I have very sloow and limited CDMA internet connection. I feel disturbed by this that eat the whole modem bandwidth and make my application has no bandwidth portion. I'm using

Disable yum update check for PackageKit

2011-10-13 Thread Ardhan Madras
Hi All, How to disable PackageKit's yum update that sometime run in background?, I have very sloow and limited CDMA internet connection. I feel disturbed by this that eat the whole modem bandwidth and make my application has no bandwidth portion. I'm using FC15. Ardha

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread john wendel
On 06/05/2011 01:26 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 08:16 +0800, H Xu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I >> can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this &g

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