Automatic and silent installation of security updates

[Ante Karamatić]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:45 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> >                                      I suggest to open a popup at
> > startup wich propose to install updates and allow to install them or
> > deporte the upgrade.
> > 
> > Of course this is very close to update-manager. The update-manager
> > should be able to BE that popup
> 
> Excellent idea. People don't read alerts, so using the update-manager
> window to actually display the available updates should be an
> improvement (especially for people who are familiar with what it looks
> like).

I agree, this would be good idea. But we have to know that not everybody
connects it's Ubuntu box to Internet. So, this pop-up should pop up when
one connects to Internet too (PPP). Another bad thing for PPP (over 56k
line) is that it needs to download 5MB to find out it needs to update
(Packages.gz). This could be avoided with additional file on mirrors. In
that file there would be only date of last updates (I know date isn't
best thing, this is just to give you an idea). Checking 1k file is much
faster and gives you information that there are updates.

At that point, pop up would pop, asking user to upgrade or postpone for
X hours/days. Clicking to postpone should give im another message that
this isn't good and he should update and that he can do that manually
running System > Administration > Update Manager. It should have "OK"
button and "Run Update Manager" button.

Notification tray is a bad thing. Few days ago I was wonderging why
isn't update notification there. After all, on breezy updates come
almost every hour. It turns out it was uninstallated, and I totally
forgot about that. So, notification area isn't a good thing for this. I
think Windows example shows it - how many people click on that thing
really?

We should look how NOD32 manages updates. I think that's updating system
with wich you allways know that NOD32 is up-tp-date, but it doesn't
scare you with things it do and don't asks too many questions. Of
course, we shouldn't take it for granted, but upgrade it.

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