2015-08-26 14:27 GMT+02:00 Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org>: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > 1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a > > frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated automatically. > So, > > you will only see it when you use GNOME with GNOME-Software or any other > > tool which triggers the functionality. Also, if it triggers the offline > > And if whatever GNOME software that is triggers the feature by default it > is > enabled. Nobody is trying to blame any single package AFAICT, we're trying > to > find out which one enables a (anti-)feature by default that it shouldn't. >
According to http://codesearch.debian.net/results/org.freedesktop.packagekit.trigger-offline-update%20-package%3Apackagekit%20-package%3Aaptdaemon/page_0 , the only tools triggering this are GNOME-Software and GNOME-Shell. For GS we have #787485 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787485> (which complains about always needing to restart for updating only, not about this being triggered). > > update, you will have chosen to do that by clicking the "Reboot and > > Restart" button. > > Eh? This neither makes sense nor is it true. A "Reboot and Restart" button > (if such a thing existed, could this be a typo?) would not give you any > hint > whatsoever that the reboot process will perform updates. And besides, I > completely switched off my system and started it again later, when that > dreaded updated kicked in. > Jup, sorry, that was a typo. It's called something like "Restart & Install updates" > > 2) I tried to reproduce the behavior of getting offline-updates by only > > installing PackageKit in a clean Sid VM. Everything was behaving as > > expected, no offline-upgrade was triggered without a frontend tool > > requesting it. So, there is something really strange happening on your > > system to trigger this - more feedback would be welcome. It could be that > > GNOME-Software was installed, has triggered the upgrade once and the file > > triggering the upgrade has just not been removed, so the machine will > > endlessly try to upgrade. Although, this should actually never happen, > and > > I would be very suprised if it does. > > No, the file has not been there. I've had the problem before and checked > for > it after the first incident. > Strange - then the install-updates mode should not have been entered in the first place. > [...] > > 4) The offline-uügrade failing is definitively a bug, but: > > > > 2015-08-26 10:44 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tscharner <starf...@sunrise.ch>: > > > > > No, I think it's the GCC 5 and the corresponding ABI update that causes > > > this. aptitude proposed to remove 64 packages yesterday... > > > > > > > Since PK is not doing anything special and is just calling Apt to do > > things, any removal done by it is highly likely related to our GCC > > transition taking place. So at time, it's a good idea to perform updates > > manually. > > Ha ha ha. I wouldn't have started this thread if I had wanted my system to > perform updates automatically. Statements like this are not exactly > helping. > > > To not trigger offline-upgrades, ensure that the file "/system-update" > does > > not exist. (this file will only be created when some other tool triggers > > offline-upgrades). > > Are you seriously suggesting I should check for that file *every* time I > reboot? > Nope, but checking if it appears while you don't want to execute offline-updates would help, because then we would be certain that something is triggering the update. Cheers, Matthias