Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1478300
Regression: software updates known to be non-urgent are shown too frequently
Last modified: 2017-08-22 07:07:30 EDT
Created attachment 1308959 [details] Screenshot with update notification Description of problem: GNOME Software is coded to aggregate non-urgent software updates and aggregate them over a period of one week. This is intended to prevent user fatigue, so that they do not delay applying urgent, security updates. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/src/gs-update-monitor.c?h=gnome-3-24#n195 This is not happening for some reason. See attached screenshots. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-software-3.24.3-1.fc26.x86_64 PackageKit-1.1.6-2.fc26.x86_64 libdnf-0.9.3-1.fc26.x86_64 How reproducible: I noticed I was getting updates more frequently than usual. I'm afraid reproducing this independent of repos and real time is beyond my knowledge. Steps to Reproduce: 1. observe update notifications more frequent than 1/week 2. each time, check `sudo dnf --refresh updateinfo list updates` to see if any are security updates 3. if you suspect a violation, you will also need to check the update release dates. See https://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-package-announce/ 4. double-check last update date using `sudo journalctl --since=-1week | grep -i pk-offline-update` Actual results: 1. attached screenshots 2. # sudo dnf clean all 34 files removed # dnf --refresh updateinfo list updates Fedora 26 - x86_64 - Updates 13 MB/s | 9.4 MB 00:00 Fedora 26 - x86_64 10 MB/s | 53 MB 00:05 local-google-chrome 65 kB/s | 3.8 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 26 - Free - Updates 147 kB/s | 157 kB 00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 26 - Free 1.0 MB/s | 519 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Fri 04 Aug 2017 09:43:18 BST. FEDORA-2017-6dd3daf830 bugfix gedit-2:3.22.1-1.fc26.x86_64 FEDORA-2017-02aafa240a bugfix libidn2-2.0.3-1.fc26.x86_64 # journalctl --since=-1week | grep -i pk-offline-update ... Aug 03 08:31:28 alan-laptop pk-offline-update[762]: sent msg to plymouth 'Shutting down after installing updates…' libidn2 update date: https://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-package-announce/msg221443.html gedit update date: https://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-package-announce/msg221442.html Expected results: If update notifications arrive more frequently than 1/week, dnf should be showing security updates.
Created attachment 1308960 [details] Screenshot of information without update notification
Created attachment 1309295 [details] Another non-security update notification on the subsequent day This happened again the next day. # updateinfo list Fedora 26 - x86_64 - Updates 8.4 MB/s | 9.4 MB 00:01 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Sat 05 Aug 2017 08:36:54 BST. FEDORA-2017-d6c7c13aa1 bugfix file-5.30-8.fc26.x86_64 FEDORA-2017-d6c7c13aa1 bugfix file-libs-5.30-8.fc26.x86_64 FEDORA-2017-0dd79e9cf5 bugfix rubygem-rdoc-5.1.0-2.fc26.noarch # pkcon get-updates Getting updates [=========================] Finished [=========================] Available file-5.30-8.fc26.x86_64 (updates) A utility for determining file types Available file-libs-5.30-8.fc26.x86_64 (updates) Libraries for applications using libmagic Available rubygem-rdoc-5.1.0-2.fc26.noarch (updates) RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects
And again today. $ sudo journalctl --since=-1week | grep -i pk-offline-update Aug 21 09:03:23 alan-laptop pk-offline-update[760]: sent msg to plymouth 'Shutting down after installing updates…' Interestingly, in confirming the problem further, I get a rough date for when this stopped working :). $ dconf read /org/gnome/software/install-timestamp int64 1500846015 $ date --date=@1500846015 Sun 23 Jul 22:40:15 BST 2017