On 07/21/2012 05:27 AM, Hamish wrote:
Micha wrote:
I see on beta2 that the
update-notifier taskbar applet thingy is still installed and
running. I seem to recall some discussion that this should
be disabled since, on a LiveDVD there's no sense
updating...
it should be there for VMs, persistent USBs, and for people who install the
OSGeo "OS" onto their hard drive from the DVD or a USB stick.

But right now it is checking daily, we should have it check weekly so that
single-use boots from the DVD never see it (or maybe only see it 1/7th of
the time, I'm not sure how it counts).

the challenge is to find which text file on the OS controls that setting.


I've rummaged around a bit and found:

user@osgeolive:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99update-notifier
DPkg::Post-Invoke {"if [ -d /var/lib/update-notifier ]; then touch /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp; fi; if [ -e /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available ]; then echo > /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available; fi "; };
user@osgeolive:~$

So it looks like update-notifier is using the timestamp on files to know when it last ran, and if there are updates.

In addition there's the 'apt' cron job in /etc/cron.daily that is checking for updates every day. So, if I understand what's going on, essentially at every boot of a DVD the situation will be set to updates available, and the notifier will kick in.

thanks,
Hamish

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