support dnf system upgrades and notify users when a new release is available

manatools / dnfdaemon

DBus daemon for doing package action with the dnf package manager

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support dnf system upgrades and notify users when a new release is available #26

Open rahulsundaram opened 5 years ago

rahulsundaram commented 5 years ago

Based on discussions at

https://lwn.net/Articles/773577/

Conan-Kudo commented 5 years ago

How would we know what a new release is?

rahulsundaram commented 5 years ago

Is there no automated mechanism which tracks presence of new releases in Fedora anymore? I was only aware of https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt which has since become obsolete

Conan-Kudo commented 5 years ago

As far as I know, no. I never integrated support for system-upgrade into dnfdaemon because I don't know how to actually identify valid upcoming releases.

rahulsundaram commented 5 years ago

How does tools like GNOME Software do it?

Conan-Kudo commented 5 years ago

I'm not sure. I use KDE, so I never really used it. Unfortunately, Plasma Discover doesn't support this either. :(

As far as I know, only GNOME Software supports it.

jcpunk commented 5 years ago

Currently gnome-software uses https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-software/tree/master/plugins/fedora-pkgdb-collections which checks https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/collections

rahulsundaram commented 5 years ago

So now that we know that there is an API available, can upgrade support be added?

Conan-Kudo commented 5 years ago

Yeah, I can look into this. I'll need to figure out how to emulate the system-upgrade mechanism...

Woi commented 5 years ago

While I'd love to have this feature, a simple notification would already be a great improvement. I thought about something like:

There is a newer release of Fedora available. To upgrade follow directions on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
This Fedora release has reached EOL. It doesn't receive any updates any more, including security fixes. It's strongly suggested to upgrade to a supported release of Fedora, following directions onhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade

I could support by translating necessary messages to German

Nokia808 commented 4 years ago

Really needed this feature if added will make dnfdragora better ...

Conan-Kudo commented 4 years ago

My understanding is that the API that GNOME Software uses now is deprecated and there is supposed to be a replacement for it. Also, we'd probably need to define an interface that multiple distributions can implement...