[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#797379: system upgrade by systemd

[Michael Banck]

Package: network-manager
Severity: wishlist

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for
> > updates.
> > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on
> > battery or on a modem connection.
> 
> Which is not enough IMO. (W)LAN connections cannot be expected to not
> carry a penalty for download volume. Just think about the now standard
> way of going on-line while traveling, making your cell play access
> point. And at least in my area of the world no flat rate is really flat,
> at least it will be slowed down to crazy low numbers if you reach a
> certain threshold. Even worse, if you're roaming it'll cost a fortune.
 
In that case, the WLAN access point ("FooAP" or so) should be tagged as
"modem", not sure if n-m can do that.  Am trying to file a wishlist
bug for that by BCCing submit at .

But in general I think we want that our users get security updates ASAP,
so the current default looks mostly sane to me.  Maybe somebody knows a
shell on-liner along the line of systemd-inhibit or some d-bus call
which deactivates automatic download for the time being for "power
users" and/or tags a WLAN connection as "modem".


Michael