** Summary changed: - Gnome Software offers installation of updates on shutdown independently from update-manager and unattended-upgrades + [SRU] Gnome Software offers installation of updates on shutdown independently from update-manager and unattended-upgrades
** Description changed: + [Original Description] + In Ubuntu the GUI for upgrading packages is update-manager allowing debconf questions to be answered when needed and Ubuntu also offers unattended-upgrades for upgrading packages in the background and it keeps back packages from upgrading when configuration-file changes would need user interaction during the upgrade. Unattended-upgrades can be configured to perform upgrades during system shutdown. Gnome Software in Bionic started offering performing upgrades during shutdown using PackageKit independently from update-manager and unattended-upgrades without offering all of the features of either one. Unless there is a decision to fully switch to Gnome Software I suggest disabling the "Install pending software updates" on the shutdown screen to avoid confusing users. + + + [Impact] + + As stated in the original description, users may be confused by the + checkbox on the shutdown dialog offering to install updates, considering + that all updates in Ubuntu are currently handled by a separate GUI + (update-manager). + + This is fixed in cosmic (3.29.1-0ubuntu6) by disabling offline updates + in the packagekit refresh plugin. + + The fix is trivial and complements an existing patch that was already + disabling updates in gnome-software. + + + [Test Case] + + 0) Prerequisite: a bionic system not fully up-to-date (if yours is fully up-to-date, downgrade a package) + 1) Verify that the following file doesn't exist (if it does, remove it): /var/lib/PackageKit/prepared-update + 2) Open gnome-software + 3) Click on the "Updates" tab, and click the refresh button in the top-left corner + 4) Wait for the refresh operation to be complete (gnome-software might incorrectly report that there are no updates available, this is a separate issue, bug #1709725) + 5) Wait a minute or two to ensure there are no pending packagekit async tasks + 6) Verify that /var/lib/PackageKit/prepared-update still doesn't exist, and consequently, when requesting to shut down the computer, the shutdown dialog doesn't offer a "Install pending software updates" checkbox + + + [Regression Potential] + + gnome-software is not used to install updates (from the archive) on + Ubuntu. However firmware updates and updates from other packaging + systems (such as flatpak) should still appear in the updates tab, when + available. + + + [Other Info] + + The updates tab in gnome-software may claim that there are no updates + available, when in fact there are. This is also confusing, but is a + separate issue (bug #1709725) and will be addressed separately. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1775226 Title: [SRU] Gnome Software offers installation of updates on shutdown independently from update-manager and unattended-upgrades To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1775226/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
