Dear Maintainer, I just had roughly 20% of my monthly data volume (aka 100 MByte) used up within minutes because this package decided to do `apt update` while I am connected via Bluetooth and my mobile phone. Lucky enough I noticed this while the update as still going and before my data was completely used up. I am not sure why the download was so big, maybe it already started downloading the .deb files? I did not even know that this package was installed; it came in via dependencies and recommendations from Gnome. The end-result us unacceptable behavior: Using the Gnome desktop in the default configuration results in huge downloads being performed over metered connections without any way for the user to know, let alone abort the download. Kind regards, Ralf
2018-02-14 16:20 GMT+07:00 Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>: I agree metered connections should be detected and downloads should be fixed but u-u is started by apt's timers, hence the issue should be fixed in apt. Thanks for the bug report! Cheers, Balint
Hi, I have been wondering why my sid laptop is sometimes spinning the fan and I've seen apt running in the background. I though that was only an update of the package index and not actual upgrades. Then I've lately had several odd system lockups on Gnome desktop running on wayland. And crashes of various applications. Then today I saw that unattended-updates were running dpkg automatically, which I have not enabled since this is sid/unstable. I traced this back to apt daily systemd timers. Why are these updates enabled by default? To me it does not make sense on sid/unstable to enable automatic updates by default. Even on stable I would expect that just installing some packages does not automatically enable installing updates which may break things on a running system which needs reboots and restart anyway to make the updates effective. And yes, I've been on expensive mobile broadband when traveling lately and am a bit afraid of getting expensive bills in a few weeks...
Hi Mikko, The explanation is in the u-u NEWS file which was not shipped due to wrong naming, but it will be present in next upload: https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/blob/master/debian/NEWS On stable u-u is already enabled, jut like in Ubuntu releases. Please run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades to disable automatic updates if you don't want them to be installed. I'm sorry for that, this bug tracks fixing this exact issue. Cheers, Balint
Fixed by unattended-upgrades commit e4d0f0bb17b843743f83ff5ee696ce5de0ede435 "Skip updates on metered connections" (Jul 11 2018), right? Regards
Hi! As stated in earlier message https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=890381#39, this issue is to some degree addressed in u-u ver. 1.4 with commit https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/commit/e4d0f0bb17 The commit message mentions that the commit fixes https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855570 which is now closed. Maybe #890381 could/should be closed too. Kamil