Public bug reported:
I'm using Lubuntu 12.10, installed in a VirtualBox VM.
Software Updater checks for updates whenever it is run. There doesn't
seem to be any way to prevent that, short of manually interrupting the
check every time. Even if the user clicks Settings... and sets
"Automatically check for updates" to Never, Software Updater always
checks for updates.
This can cause a lot of unnecessary network activity. Apart from wasting
time when there is no need to check for updates, imagine the impact on
the user experience for users with dialup or pay-by-the-megabyte 3G
connections.
This could be improved in a couple of ways:
1. Respect the user's choice and don't automatically check for updates every
time Software Updater is run.
2. If updates were last checked for recently (within 24 hours say), there's no
need for Software Updater to re-download all the package lists. Examples:
- The user used Software Updater to install security updates, and later runs
it again to install some proposed updates.
- The user used Synaptic to add a repository, reloaded the package lists and
installed a package from the new repository. User later runs Software Updater.
(Ideally the whole package/update system would be improved so Software
Updater could request from the server a list of those changed packages
since the last check time. That would make a typical update checking
session much faster. But I guess that's out of scope for this bug.)
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Software Updater does not respect user's "Automatically check for
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