Hello,
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 04:42:18PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 04:31:02PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I self-inflicted this by installing [unattended-upgrades] so many years ago?
>
> It's a dependency of some/most(?) desktop environments, I think. I
> doubt you installed it by name and forgot.
I do not have it installed on my recently-install Debian 12 / GNOME
desktop.
I do have packagekit though, which includes this config file:
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20packagekit
// THIS FILE IS USED TO INFORM PACKAGEKIT THAT THE UPDATE-INFO MIGHT HAVE
CHANGED
// Whenever dpkg is called we might have different updates
// i.e. if an user removes a package that had an update
DPkg::Post-Invoke {
"/usr/bin/test -e
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service &&
/usr/bin/test -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket && /usr/bin/gdbus call
--system --dest org.freedesktop.PackageKit --object-path
/org/freedesktop/PackageKit --timeout 4 --method
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged cache-update > /dev/null; /bin/echo
> /dev/null";
};
// When APT's cache is updated (i.e. apt-cache update)
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success {
"/usr/bin/test -e
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service &&
/usr/bin/test -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket && /usr/bin/gdbus call
--system --dest org.freedesktop.PackageKit --object-path
/org/freedesktop/PackageKit --timeout 4 --method
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged cache-update > /dev/null; /bin/echo
> /dev/null";
};
So I think probably that unattended-upgrades is downloading Stefan's packages
and then poking packagekit over DBUS to make the GNOME tell Stefan about it.
Which also explains the warning when packagekit is disabled.
Thanks,
Andy
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