On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:15:25AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Did you actually tried update-notifier on KDE? > > Yes, it was installed on my system for some months, but it never > informed me about any update. (I get informed via > debian-security-announce, though and install updates 'by hand'. )
You are absolutely right. Now that I look at both the code and my system it turns out it's working OK here because I also have cron-apt installed. Fact is, upgrade-notifier's source code contains a cron script for that, it's just not activated so for the time being. I guess installing cron-apt should fix that. > > update-notifier checks > > himself if the package information has changed periodically. There's no need > > for update-notifier to depend on cron-apt or any 'backend' as it already > > does the job. If you ask it to install new software it will run > > update-manager. > > That's what I would expect from its description in 'aptitude show > update-[manager|notifier]. Yes, and from the manpage. I'm going to go and file a bug. Regards Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
