[maemo-developers] Fremantle Community SSU

[From: tero.kojo at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-
> bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Andrew Flegg
> Sent: 2. marraskuuta 2010 10:38
> To: Vollmer Marius (Nokia-MS/Helsinki)
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Re: Fremantle Community SSU
> 
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 08:32, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>
> wrote:
> > ext Niels Breet <niels at maemo.org> writes:
> >
> >> Problem Mohammad faced here is that HAM holds a lock, so you can't
> run
> >> apt-get in the background. This is why he needs to open the xterm
> and
> >> ask the user to close HAM.
> >
> > Yes.  But what about launching that script from a launcher entry
> instead
> > of asking people to type something into an xterm?  I think that
> inspires
> > a bit more confidence.
> 
> The way it's supposed to work (worked for X-Fade, but not me) is that
> the X Terminal opens running a script which says "Please close HAM and
> press enter; any remaining dpkg-lock holding processes will be
> killed".
> 
> TBH, I wonder whether that's really necessary - presumably it's
> possible via D-Bus to open HAM in "check for upgrade mode" (i.e. what
> the notifier status menu applet does). What if the postinst starts a
> nohup task which:
> 
>   1) sleeps for some period of time (say, 5-10 seconds)
>   2) asks HAM to quit (simulating a close button press or just killall)
>   3) restarts HAM in "check for upgrades" mode.
> 
> The user would have fewer interactions (clicking the "Update all"
> button in HAM, once restarted) and it'd be more seamless and,
> according to my gut, less prone to error.

My opinion only, but to me it sounds a bit overkill.

Why not simplify and have an enabler package that installs the repo, the new mp- package and makes sure the community ssu repo is at the proper security level.

Then the user can go and press the update button as much as they like. Setting up SSU is a onetime thing, using it should be long term. If I get the update right now or tomorrow morning will not turn my world upside down.

Tero

> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew
> 
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