Apparently, there's now a thing called `packagekit` whose daemon seems
to like to download updates "in the background" for me.
Thanks, but no, thanks. This tends to occur at inopportune times for me
and it's not far enough "in the background", so it gets in the way
(furthermore, I like to download my packages with `debdelta` and
`packagekitd` doesn't know how to do that, AFAICT).
How can I stop those downloads?
Currently, I did
systemctl mask packagekit
which might get the job done, but I don't really know what other impact
it might have, and I see that APT complains about it (tho it still
works fine, as far as I can tell):
# LANG=C apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org stable-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org testing-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease
Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit
packagekit.service is masked.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
#
Where can I say specifically that I don't want automatic background
download of updates?
Stefan
