Hi,
2016-03-02 3:51 GMT+00:00 Fulano Diego Perez <fulanope...@cryptolab.net>:
> hi
>
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2016-03-01 02:21 Fulano Diego Perez:
>>>
>>> there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf by default as far as im aware in debian
>>> stretch
>>>
>>> what else needs to be done in order to disable this ?
>>>
>>> is there a gnome package manager possibly interfering ?
>>>
>>> its very frustrating on a limited bandwidth connection each time a usb
>>> modem, for example, is connected ...
>>
>> aptitude doesn't run automatically.
>>
>> Maybe it is run by other programs installed in the system, like
>> unattended-upgrades, cron-apt or apticron?
>
> anacron ?
>
> it is installed
anacron is similar to cron, just runs tasks at a given time. it's not
related to aptitude or apt updates per-se.
However, there's this from "man apt.conf", but Axel already told you about this:
PERIODIC AND ARCHIVES OPTIONS
APT::Periodic and APT::Archives groups of options configure
behavior of apt periodic updates, which is done by the
/etc/cron.daily/apt script. See the top of
this script for the brief documentation of these options.
Other than that, I think that as Axel said, aptitude doesn't really
have anything to do with automatic updates, so it must be a problem
with other package managers / tools that you have installed, like
appstream or packagekit that you mention in other messages.
I never used them, so I don't have much to say about that, but it's
probably better if you ask in debian-user mailing lists,
http://ask.debian.net/ or similar forums.
>> This will tell you about installed packages in your system that depend
>> on apt or aptitude, that might be causing this:
>>
>> aptitude search '~i~D(^aptitude$|^apt$)'
>
> i apt-listchanges -
> i apt-utils -
> i python-reportbug -
> i reportbug -
> i tasksel -
Those don't seem to be related, no.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
