Bug 31248

Summary:	pkcon get-updates should always imply refresh
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	caramba_bk
Component:	General	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
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Description caramba_bk 2010-10-30 23:56:05 UTC

Running pkcon get-updates apparently looks only at the cached local list. So it might report no available updates, but if you then refresh the list and run get-updates again, it will present available updates.
This seems counter intuitive, wouldn't 99 percent of users running pkcon get-updates actually want to poll if there are new packages in the repository? Therefore the suggestion is that get-updates should imply a refresh. The current behaviour could still be obtained by adding a --cache option.

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2010-10-31 01:51:18 UTC

We're actually discussing this on the mailing list at the moment, by chance. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/packagekit/2010-October/006022.html for a possible solution. If you have a few minutes, please join the mailing list and share your views. Thanks.

Richard.

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2010-11-15 07:23:12 UTC

pkcon now has a --cache-age parameter.

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