[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#797379: system upgrade by systemd

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Michael

On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 10:30:54 +0200 Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for
> > > updates.
> > > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on
> > > battery or on a modem connection.
> > 
> > Which is not enough IMO. (W)LAN connections cannot be expected to not
> > carry a penalty for download volume. Just think about the now standard
> > way of going on-line while traveling, making your cell play access
> > point. And at least in my area of the world no flat rate is really flat,
> > at least it will be slowed down to crazy low numbers if you reach a
> > certain threshold. Even worse, if you're roaming it'll cost a fortune.
>  
> In that case, the WLAN access point ("FooAP" or so) should be tagged as
> "modem", not sure if n-m can do that.  Am trying to file a wishlist
> bug for that by BCCing submit at .
> 
> But in general I think we want that our users get security updates ASAP,
> so the current default looks mostly sane to me.  Maybe somebody knows a
> shell on-liner along the line of systemd-inhibit or some d-bus call
> which deactivates automatic download for the time being for "power
> users" and/or tags a WLAN connection as "modem".

It's not quite clear to me, what you want from NM in this bug report.
How should NM know which WLAN connection to tag as metered?




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