Software update freuency setting is ignored?

[chconnor]

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!

[jglen490]

You can also check and update that configuration in Muon -> Configure software sources -> Updates tab. Muon will prompt you for your password.

[chconnor]

Thank you -- but that menu option pulls up the same thing as software-sources-kde, so it's already at Weekly.

[jglen490]

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 ...

[v7peer]

There are two package managers installed: Discover and Muon.
Which package message is responsable for the update messages
I thought this was Discover.

[acheron]

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.

I thought this was Discover.

It is. The updater is built and installed in the Discover source/package.

[chconnor]

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. :-)

[acheron]

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

[chconnor]

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.

[acheron]

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.

[chconnor]

The plot thickens! Thanks!

[chconnor]

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

https://phabricator.kde.org/D17375