Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 13:15:30 +0200
Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 at 8:05 PM
> > From: l0f4r0@tuta.io
> > To: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of
> > software/security updates?
> >
> > 28 mai 2021, 13:43 de l0f4r0@tuta.io:
> >
> > > I think you won't update/upgrade automatically anymore (by the
> > > way you say you haven't noticed this behavior so far), but time
> > > will confirm.
>
> Time has indeed confirmed my worst fears. Today June 1, 2021 in
> fact...
>
> > Correction: I meant if you still have updates/upgrades, then it
> > shouldn't be because of package unattended-upgrades. So you would
> > have to dig somewhere else...
>
> Automatic downloads of software/security downloads took place today,
> June 1, 2021.
>
> Please click the link to the screenshot: https://ibb.co/5xP7r5t
>
> Please see below for the details:
>
> username@localhost:~$ sudo apt update
> [sudo] password for username:
> Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates
> InRelease Hit:2 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
> Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
> Hit:4 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
> Hit:5 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
>
> username@localhost:~$ sudo apt list --upgradable
> Listing... Done
> gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0/stable,stable 2.32.1-1~deb10u1 amd64
> [upgradable from: 2.30.6-1~deb10u1] gir1.2-webkit2-4.0/stable,stable
> 2.32.1-1~deb10u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.30.6-1~deb10u1]
> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18/stable,stable 2.32.1-1~deb10u1 amd64
> [upgradable from: 2.30.6-1~deb10u1]
> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37/stable,stable 2.32.1-1~deb10u1 amd64 [upgradable
> from: 2.30.6-1~deb10u1] username@localhost:~$
>
> username@localhost:~$ sudo apt upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
> 4 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B/20.2 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 5,118 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> If you guys notice, 20.2MB of updates have been automatically
> downloaded in the background (without my manual intervention).
>
So who typed the 'sudo apt update' and 'sudo apt upgrade'?
Those are one pair of commands (there are others) to *manually* first
download the list of upgradeable packages and then to download and
install the packages themselves.
If it was you who typed them, what did you expect them to do? If it
wasn't you who typed them, find out who/what did so.
--
Joe
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