On 12/26/19 1:05 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Fedora has a patch which completely prevents the application from >> checking for application updates, but leaves the plugin updater check >> running. Perhaps you would find this interesting? > > Really? The patch seems to remove the plugins update check code, too, at > least to my eyes? But yeah, this is where I would patch code if > necessary. > >> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/calibre/blob/master/f/calibre-no-update.patch > ... > - try: > - update_plugins = > get_plugin_updates_available(raise_error=True) > - if update_plugins is not None: > - plugins_update_found = len(update_plugins) > It's too late at night for me to analyze this, but I have vague memories of looking at the patch and figuring that was what it did or was intended to do. Could be I misremembered. Maybe I'll take another look.
Either way, that's indeed the logical place to patch it, so yeah. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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