That is what I thought when I read your original post, but then I saw a topic where it was suggested that Apt config settings are necessary too, I think this one.Yes, the idea was that the update was triggered by these services. This is a good opportunity to test if this disables updates in KDE.unattended-upgrades used to be a default install with Gnome, but isn't any more, yet Gnome still alerts users of updates. How? I don't know - the chain seems to be broken.
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I don't understand the Systemd timer well enough to understand if it is actually configured in Gnome/KDE to update the package list without an Apt config file. fabien posted some script here which may be the missing link.
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#> systemctl stop apt-daily-upgrade.timer#> systemctl stop apt-daily.timer#> systemctl disable apt-daily-upgrade.timer#> systemctl disable apt-daily.timer
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1408639 ... n-20auto-u
I recently installed Debian 12 XFCE and observed that the timers were present, but I didn't observe any update notifications with my update script, which basically runs
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aptitude search '~U' | wc -lMy methodology in testing this may well have been wrong.
The script /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily has this:
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# This file understands the following apt configuration variables:# Values here are the default.# Create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic file to set your preference.## All of the n-days interval options also accept the suffixes# s for seconds, m for minutes, h for hours, d for days or# the "always" value to do the action for every job run,# which can be used with systemd OnCalendar overrides to# define custom schedules for the apt update/upgrade jobs.## Dir "/";# - RootDir for all configuration files## Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";# - Set apt package cache directory## Dir::Cache::Archives "archives/";# - Set package archive directory## APT::Periodic::Enable "1";# - Enable the update/upgrade script (0=disable)#Is there some change to the Systemd script that Gnome and KDE make to enable an update check, or is my understanding of how apt-daily.time works wrong? Quite possible the latter, and my knowledge of scripting is very basic.
Statistics: Posted by FreewheelinFrank — 2024-07-07 06:11