Bug 1508

Summary: Automatic updates on mageia
Product: Mageia Reporter: Pierre Bonneau <pmithrandir>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: packagekit CVE:
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Description Pierre Bonneau 2011-06-01 15:00:14 CEST
Description of problem:
Now, when a user use mageia, he has to click on the red dot to update his system.
After, he should check the updates and validate what he wants or not.

For most of the final users, it's is totaly inadequate because they don't understand what to do, so they click on the red dot, click ok and trust mageia.
Or worse, they don't even apply the updates because they are too afraid to do something bad.

Microsoft created an automatic update system for there users in 2000, and I think we should have the same system. A final user doesn't want, and doesn't need, to understand how it works. He just need the system to work and to be secure.

My idea is to add an option in the updates preference to activate automatic updates.
We could have some limitations(options) : 
 - no automatic updates on battery
 - no automatic updates bigger than ??? MB
 - no "critical" automatic updates (kernel, glib C...)

...

I think it would help administrator or people who install mageia for there family to keep all computers clean whithout using all sunday afternoon(I know you have the same problem with your step family !!!)


Here is the discussion on the official forum : 
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=312&p=2215#p2068
Manuel Hiebel 2011-06-01 18:08:33 CEST

CC: (none) => manuel
Version: 1 => Cauldron
Source RPM: (none) => mgaonline

Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-11 13:00:07 CEST

CC: manuel => (none)
Component: Release (media, process) => RPM Packages

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2011-12-08 22:22:48 CET
@ Pierre

Sorry for replying so very late, we are very short on triagers.

There is a tool for this, it is called packagekit and has an interface for kde, kpackagekit, and for gnome, gnome-packagekit and there is (amongst others) a packagekit-cron package, too

It can automatically install all updates or only security updates.

There are some bugs in it, though, that were going to be solved by an update, but the Mageia update isn't ready yet (bug 2343)

Please check the possibilities of packagekit (and try the updated package when it becomes available) and go to http://www.packagekit.org/ for any enhancement requests.


Closing this request

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Source RPM: mgaonline => packagekit