Bug 542179

Created attachment 374439 [details]
Desktop screencap

You tried System -> Preferences -> Software Updates, and setting check for updates to never?

Of course I tried the obvious. The screencap that I attached in comment #1
is supposed to provide the evidence.

On second thought, there's a possibility that I did not log out after
I set the settings, so the applet possibly continued to run with old
settings. I thought I did log out, but perhaps the experiment wasn't clean.

(In reply to comment #4)
> On second thought, there's a possibility that I did not log out after
> I set the settings, so the applet possibly continued to run with old
> settings. I thought I did log out, but perhaps the experiment wasn't clean.  

Even so, gnome-packagekit doesn't need a login to set new settings, so it's still likely a bug. Can you work out what operation you did for the orange star to appear? Thanks.

I don't think I did anything explicit. It all is done by some session magic.

Today it appeared again at login time and there was a notification about
security updates (which is true -- I'm running yum update right now).
So I'm pretty sure something runs during the session startup and prompts
this.

Actually I think we have sensible defaults that help keeping systems
up to date. The problem is that something impolitely ignores the settings
that the (possibly misguided) user configured.

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