Bug 446964

Summary:	Deactivating automatic update checks nonfunctional.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	August Schwerdfeger <august>
Component:	gnome-packagekit	Assignee:	Robin Norwood <robin.norwood>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	9	CC:	richard, richard
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Description August Schwerdfeger 2008-05-16 19:23:58 UTC

Description of problem:

The option in the "Software Update Preferences" dialog NEVER to check for
updates is ignored by the update daemon, which checks for them quite often when
this option is set.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-packagekit-0.1.12-12.20080430.fc9.i386

How reproducible:

Set the option "Check for Updates" in the "Software Update Preferences" dialog
to NEVER; observe the behavior of the update daemon.
  
Expected results:

I interpret the NEVER option as meaning that I must check for updates manually
if I want them, thus avoiding lengthy update checks over sluggish wireless
connections.

Actual results:

The update daemon appears to interpret NEVER as meaning EVERY TIME A NETWORK
CONNECTION GOES LIVE.

Comment 1 Richard Kennedy 2008-05-21 12:34:09 UTC

I'm seeing this problem too.
I would like to disable packagekit completely on my laptop & only do manual updates.

also there seems be no way to remove the packagekit applets from the menu bar :(

I tried to uninstall packagekit but that removes print-config as well.

yumex does a much better job for me

Richard

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2008-05-28 09:33:22 UTC

So if you set the option to "never" and then restart your computer, is an update
scheduled? I can;t reproduce here. Thanks.

Comment 3 August Schwerdfeger 2008-05-28 15:12:52 UTC

I have had the option set to NEVER since installing Fedora 9 some weeks ago,
restarting the computer a great number of times in the intervening period.

I take this computer between several wireless networks and one wired network;
update checks are made when I establish a connection with a network.

I originally installed from the Live-CD for the preview release, if that is a
relevant factor.

Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2008-06-03 13:38:58 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 441127 ***