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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2016-03-02 3:51 GMT+00:00 Fulano Diego Perez <fulanoperez at cryptolab.net>:
> hi
>
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2016-03-01 02:21 Fulano Diego Perez:
>>>
>>> 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 ...
>>
>> aptitude doesn't run automatically.
>>
>> Maybe it is run by other programs installed in the system, like
>> unattended-upgrades, cron-apt or apticron?
>
> anacron ?
>
> it is installed

anacron is similar to cron, just runs tasks at a given time.  it's not
related to aptitude or apt updates per-se.

However, there's this from "man apt.conf", but Axel already told you about this:

  PERIODIC AND ARCHIVES OPTIONS
       APT::Periodic and APT::Archives groups of options configure
       behavior of apt periodic updates, which is done by the
       /etc/cron.daily/apt script. See the top of
       this script for the brief documentation of these options.


Other than that, I think that as Axel said, aptitude doesn't really
have anything to do with automatic updates, so it must be a problem
with other package managers / tools that you have installed, like
appstream or packagekit that you mention in other messages.

I never used them, so I don't have much to say about that, but it's
probably better if you ask in debian-user mailing lists,
http://ask.debian.net/ or similar forums.


>> This will tell you about installed packages in your system that depend
>> on apt or aptitude, that might be causing this:
>>
>>  aptitude search '~i~D(^aptitude$|^apt$)'
>
> i   apt-listchanges                                                    -
> i   apt-utils                                                          -
> i   python-reportbug                                                   -
> i   reportbug                                                          -
> i   tasksel                                                            -

Those don't seem to be related, no.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>