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Binary package hint: update-manager
Update Manager and Mobile Broadband: Update Manager Ignores Its Own
Warning and Takes Control
Update Manager (Ubuntu 11.04, fully updated) duly announces when my netbook is
connected to the internet via a wireless modem (Mobile Broadband). Mobile
Broadband comes with strict data consumption limits, so this warning makes
sense.
The settings for updates on my netbook are:
- Important Security Updates: Download and Install Automatically
- Recommended Updates: Manual Download and Install
However, when there are updates, Update Manager will happily download
them all anyway -- without my prompting --, both the Important Security
Updates (this is correct) and the Recommended Updates (this is
incorrect). When I open Update Manager some time after a system
restart, this has already occurred automatically in the background; it
is a fait accompli, despite the Mobile Broadband warning displayed by
Update Manager.
This can really bite very heavily into my available remaining Mobile
Broadband data allowance.
I of course want to be able to choose which, if any, Recommended Updates
are installed when under Mobile Broadband (and defer any non-essential
ones until I am back under W-Fi), but I seem to have no control. Update
Manager simply ignores its own wireless modem warning. This cannot be
right.
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: mobile-broadband update-manager
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Update Manager Ignores Its Own Mobile Broadband Warning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/796879
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