[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816349: aptitude: cannot seem to disable automatic download of updates

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.5-3
Severity: normal



$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic
APT
{
        Periodic
        {
        Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
        Update-Package-Lists "0";
        Unattended-Upgrade "0";
        AutocleanInterval "0";
        }
}


there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf by default as far as im aware in debian
stretch


what else needs to be done in order to disable this ?


is there a gnome package manager possibly interfering ?


its very frustrating on a limited bandwidth connection each time a usb
modem, for example, is connected ...



-- Package-specific info:
$TERM not set.
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.5
Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20151207
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.6.2
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20151024
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe0cb5d000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
(0x00007f011c7db000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
(0x00007f011c5ab000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f011c380000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007f011c17a000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x00007f011be7d000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007f011bba6000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f011b98c000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f011b773000)
	libboost_system.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f011b56e000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22
(0x00007f011b16a000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x00007f011af4d000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(0x00007f011abd1000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f011a8cc000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f011a6b6000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f011a311000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f011a10e000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f0119f0a000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f0119cf2000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f0119ad7000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f01198c7000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f01196a0000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f011948e000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f0119285000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f0119080000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00005629150be000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.7.5-3
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.2.3
ii  libboost-filesystem1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-4.1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0   1.58.0+dfsg-4.1
ii  libboost-system1.58.0      1.58.0+dfsg-4.1
ii  libc6                      2.21-9
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:5.3.1-8
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20151024-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.6.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.10.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                 5.3.1-8
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20151024-2
ii  libxapian22v5              1.2.22-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7.5-3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.34

-- no debconf information