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Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?



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).

I appreciate your help in this matter.

Best wishes.


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