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    Software update freuency setting is ignored?

    Hi -- I run "kdesudo software-properties-kde" and change the "Check for updates" frequency to "weekly" but I still see updates every day. Is there another place to change this value that I need to alter?

    Thanks!
    Last edited by chconnor; Dec 05, 2018, 06:12 PM.

    #2
    You can also check and update that configuration in Muon -> Configure software sources -> Updates tab. Muon will prompt you for your password.
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      #3
      Thank you -- but that menu option pulls up the same thing as software-sources-kde, so it's already at Weekly.

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        #4
        I'm not sure what you are seeing everyday, unless you have some PPAs or other sources that I don't have, but mine is set to Daily an I maybe see updates once or twice a week at most. Not sure what the answer is ...
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          #5
          There are two package managers installed: Discover and Muon.
          Which package message is responsable for the update messages
          I thought this was Discover.

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            #6
            Originally posted by chconnor View Post
            Hi -- I run "kdesudo software-properties-kde" and change the "Check for updates" frequency to "weekly" but I still see updates every day. Is there another place to change this value that I need to alter?
            Software properties setting is a holdover from the old apt based update mechanism. The icon/updater you see uses package kit and frequencies for checking updates are coded in, without user facing options. :/

            Both those issue maybe worth reporting as a bug or feature request, if not already done.

            i.e. setting could maybe be hidden in software-properties if running a KDE session, and discover for options for that.

            Originally posted by v7peer View Post
            I thought this was Discover.
            It is. The updater is built and installed in the Discover source/package.
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              #7
              Originally posted by acheron View Post
              Software properties setting is a holdover from the old apt based update mechanism. The icon/updater you see uses package kit and frequencies for checking updates are coded in, without user facing options. :/
              Wow, really surprising to hear that. Thanks for the info. So if I disable updates entirely (in software-properties-kde) will that setting apply? There must be a way to make PackageKit chill out without removing it?

              Both those issue maybe worth reporting as a bug or feature request, if not already done.
              I can't seem to find an existing bug in the PackageKit bug list.

              Unfortunately, I can't find a way to make a new bug, either. After making a freedesktop.org account, and finding no link for the package kit project available here or in the gitlab area, I hacked a link following the pattern I saw: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_b...uct=PackageKit but it says "Sorry, entering a bug into the product PackageKit has been disabled."

              It's seems really, really weird that PackageKit would have a hard-coded update interval. E.g. is there no cron job or config file or such that one can alter?

              And is there nowhere to file bugs?

              I feel like I must be missing a lot, here. :-)

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                #8
                Sorry. I know what I meant, but was maybe not clear. I meant coded into the software invoking packagekit, not packagekit itself. A bug against packagekit would be wrong.

                The updater tray icon etc is part of plasma discover.

                Also see: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=156081
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                  #9
                  Thanks. Bug filed here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401810

                  Strangely, though, I'm having the exact same issue on Lubuntu 18.04. Maybe it's coincidentally the same kind of bug; i.e. the graphical widget is only partially-implemented.

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                    #10
                    Hmmmm. I'm looking at the code, and there might be a bug. Seems it may actually try to read and respect that software-properties setting, but is getting it wrong.

                    I'll message the discover developer to check.
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                      #11
                      The plot thickens! Thanks!

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                        #12
                        Hey, looks like the dev has already fixed it, wow!

                        https://phabricator.kde.org/D17375

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