[Yum-devel] [PATCH] refresh-updatesd: some tweaks

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:24 -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:20:56AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 1) Be less verbose, as yum-updatesd might not be running
> > 2) Run on posttrans, not close. This stops it continually firing off
> >    when I run repoqeury. (Perhaps repoquery shouldn't initialize
> >    plugins, but...)
> 
> 1 sounds good, but 2 will stop the plugin from poking updatesd when you
> do 'yum list updates' and an update is found.
> 
> Is there any way we can check if there are updated packages without
> forcing the updates calculation?
> 

Think about that statement for a second :)

It's sorta like saying: Is there any way we can see if it is red w/o
looking at it? Isn't it?

-sv