I've checked in a change to fix this, if you run 'qmake DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK=1' then the UI option won't appear and it won't check for updates either.
What's the best way to document something like this so the people responsible for the different distributions know about it? On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Nicolas Guilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-09-12 07:29, Johannes Schauer wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Quoting Leonardo Zide (2014-09-11 23:18:22) >> >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Johannes Schauer <[1][email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks a lot for making me aware of this! I'm currently packaging LDView >>>> for >>>> Debian and as I now saw, the source code indeed has pieces which allow >>>> for >>>> online retrieval. I must immediately make sure that these bits are >>>> never >>>> executed without explicit request from the user or otherwise this is a >>>> privacy >>>> breach which makes LDView unfit for Debian. >>>> >>> Then I should mention that I check for updates at startup by default by >>> downloading a text file. We've talked about how this didn't make alot of >>> sense for Linux distros and offered to add an option to disable it but no >>> one was interested. Let me know if you want any changes to this. >>> >> Ideally, for the Linux distros, the auto-update feature should simply be > non-existent. > > I just checked with wireshark and it doesn't seem as if leocad would >> create any >> network activity on startup. >> >> But the leocad Debian package also carries the following patch: >> >> --- leocad-git-clone.orig/qt/qtmain.cpp 2013-10-22 13:08:48.000000000 >> +0200 >> +++ leocad-git-clone/qt/qtmain.cpp 2013-10-22 15:02:02.000000000 >> +0200 >> @@ -169,8 +169,6 @@ >> gMainWindow->UpdateRecentFiles(); >> w.show(); >> - lcDoInitialUpdateCheck(); >> - >> int execReturn = app.exec(); >> delete gMainWindow; >> >> >> So I guess this is the bit that disables the check for updates at startup? >> > Yep - but leaves a bogus feature in the UI however... > > Cheers > > > Nicolas > >
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