Re: yum-updatesd in F8?

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:20 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but is it not possible to have yum work in
> essentially a read-only mode which would allow checking for updates...
> but would _not_ block other applications>

PackageKit can do this. Checkout http://hughsient.livejournal.com/ for
progress. There's also a git repo if you want to try this out on
rawhide.

Richard.