Hello Balint, or anyone else affected, Accepted unattended-upgrades into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /unattended-upgrades/1.1ubuntu1.18.04.7~16.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781183 Title: Skip updates on metered connections Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Bionic: Fix Released Status in unattended-upgrades package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] * Systems running unattended-upgrades may download updates over metered connections causing excessive data usage possibly making users being charged for the downloads. * Avoiding users being unexpectedly charged due to unattended- upgrades' activity warrants an SRU, IMO. * The fix uses NetworkMonitor.get_network_metered(NetworkMonitor.get_default()) for deciding if the connection is metered and skips or gracefully stops updates. [Test Case] * Run "unattended-upgrades --dry-run --verbose" on metered connection - The unfixed versions should provide the following output with default configuration: $ sudo unattended-upgrade --dry-run --verbose Initial blacklisted packages: Initial whitelisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: o=Ubuntu,a=bionic, o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security, o=UbuntuESM,a=bionic No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending auto-removals - The fixed versions should provide the following output with default configuration: Initial blacklisted packages: Initial whitelisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: o=Ubuntu,a=bionic, o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security, o=UbuntuESM,a=bionic System is on metered connection, stopping - You can check if the default route is on metered connection by running: nmcli -t -f GENERAL.DEVICE,GENERAL.METERED dev show `ip route list 0/0 | sed -r 's/.*dev (\S*).*/\1/g'` - Also run fixed u-u on not metered connection to check if it still works. U-u in lxc for example does not detect the connection to be metered. - Check if the following configuration can enable updates even on metered connections: $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-metered Unattended-Upgrade::Skip-Updates-On-Metered-Connections "false"; [Regression Potential] * Unattended-upgrades may skip updates even on not metered connections or crash, but those are not likely. * U-u also adds two new dependencies with the fix which can be seen as a regression, but those packages exist on most Ubuntu installations already. (The packages are: gir1.2-glib-2.0 and python3-gi) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1781183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp