On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:25:04AM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Updating isnt' the problem. Asking for root access before updating is > definatly neccassary. What the problem is the applet sits passive in the > background at all times, monitoring for updates. It cannot check for > updates without root access,
A non-privileged user can normally read /etc/apt/sources.list and check the timestamps in /var/cache/apt. Send those timestamps as If-Modified-Since header like apt does and the web server will tell whether they're up to date. Just checking for updates shouldn't require root privileges. Regards Max -- Max Vozeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hinterhof.net/~max GnuPG B7CDA2DC : 308E 81E7 B979 63BC A0E6 ED88 9D5B D511 B7CD A2DC
