update-manager sync at install

[Michael Vogt]

Hi John,

thanks for your feedback!

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:13:11PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Update Manager complained today that there were 6 new updates, so I told
> it to go ahead.  Afterwards, I did an apt-get upgrade and the below.

There is a open bug (#6631) to include a "Update package list now"
button in update-manager. My concern is that it will make the window
look overcrowded and confusing. 
 
> root at icebox:~/deb# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   esound
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libsamplerate0 polypaudio polypaudio-alsa polypaudio-x11
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   contact-lookup-applet libglade2-0 synaptic ubuntu-desktop

Please note that update-manager is designed as a update application
(not as a package manager). It will do "upgrades", not
"dist-upgrades". The difference is that a "upgrade" will no install
new or remove packages. The above situation may be caused by that. For
the later you should use apt/aptitude/synaptic because it offers more
control.

> It takes about 15 seconds to apt-get update.  Can there be an option to
> update before installing updates?  i.e. only show an icon when
> update-manager found updates, but check for updates again just in time
> to make sure update-manager didn't update 2 hours ago right in the
> middle of an upload batch.

The current minimum intervall for automatic checking for updates in
the background (a cron job that does a silent apt-get update) is one
day. 

[..]
> I still like the idea of downloading packages in the background too.
> *shrug*

Packages can be downloaded in the background (see Preferences/Settings
in Update-Manager). 

Cheers,
 Michael

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