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

[Fulano Diego Perez]

hi

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 ?

found gnome-software in dconf; see attachment

now removed

this was installed without my intervention

after 2-3 days without automatic downloading i would conclude this was
the culprit

>>>>
>>>> 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.
> 


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