Bug#941048: fwupd: provide option to never send report
To accomplish this, I believe you can just comment out ReportURI= in the LVFS remote and restart the daemon. (IE /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/lvfs.conf)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 7:02 PM
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System
> Subject: Bug#941048: fwupd: provide option to never send report
>
> Package: fwupd
> Version: 1.2.10-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> There are a wide variety of situations where a user may never want to send a
> report about successful firmware update. For example, I've worked at a
> nonprofit dealing with mental health where sending reports to the vendor was
> forbidden as a blanket policy because they might contain sensitive client data.
> Other people are concerned about privacy, and yet others may be on a metered
> or slow connection and wish not to send unneeded data.
>
> Currently, every time "fwupd get-updates" runs, it prompts to send a report
> about the last update. This is bothersome for users who never wish to send an
> update. It would be beneficial if fwupd learned a configuration option to never
> send an update for any reason and to avoid prompting to do so.
>
> If a configuration option already exists to do this, consider this a request to
> document the behavior or refer to a manual page for the configuration file in
> the fwupdmgr(1) manual page so it can be easily discovered.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags:
> TAINT_WARN
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages fwupd depends on:
> ii libarchive13 3.4.0-1
> ii libc6 2.29-2
> ii libefiboot1 37-2
> ii libefivar1 37-2
> ii libelf1 0.176-1.1
> ii libfwupd2 1.2.10-2
> ii libgcab-1.0-0 1.2-5
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.60.6-2
> ii libgnutls30 3.6.9-5
> ii libgpg-error0 1.36-7
> ii libgpgme11 1.13.1-1
> ii libgudev-1.0-0 233-1
> ii libgusb2 0.3.0-1
> ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.4.4-2
> ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-26
> ii libsmbios-c2 2.4.1-1
> ii libsoup2.4-1 2.64.2-2
> ii libsqlite3-0 3.29.0-2
> ii libxmlb1 0.1.8-1+b1
> ii shared-mime-info 1.10-1
>
> Versions of packages fwupd recommends:
> ii bolt 0.8-4
> ii fwupd-amd64-signed [fwupd-signed] 1.2.10+2
> ii python3 3.7.3-1
> ii tpm2-abrmd 2.1.1-1+b1
> ii tpm2-tools 3.1.3-2+b1
>
> fwupd suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> --
> brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
> OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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