Bug#665290: Not _trying_ to do Distro upgrades

[Henry-Nicolas Tourneur]

Okay I understand, but beside you not wanting to use it for Distro
Upgrades, 
GSD shouldn't complain about that because GetDistroUpgrades are supposed
to be managed by the backend (see pk matrix I posted here above).

On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:01:47 -0400, Dominique Brazziel
<dbrazziel at snet.net>
wrote:
> This message does not coincide with me trying to use 
> packagekit to do distribution or any other upgrades, but rather
> coincodes with the following spam pair in my syslog (on three different
> machines, mind you):
> 
> dbus[1670]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
> dbus[1670]: [system] Successfully activated service
> 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
> 
> They '.xsession-errors' messages and '/var/log/messages' pair
> above both happened at 19:19.  Finally some cause and effect has been
> established for the phantom packagekit activation
> (see also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665477).  
> Feel free to merge #665477 with this one.
> 
> Once again, I use a mixture of aptitude and update-manager to perform
> all package upgrades.  The daily cron job '/etc/cron.daily/apt' does 95%
> of the updates (I do the odd command line update when a repository
> change is made, which is rarely).  I do not intentionally try and use
> packagekit at all.