Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-09-04 Thread Mario Lang
Marc Haber writes: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:35:30 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >>This is a feature of systemd and PackageKit. >>See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates/ > > Please disable this for Debian. Not tomorrow, do it today. +1 -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-09-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Raphael Hertzog dijo [Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 02:41:59PM +0200]: > > Please tell me which package is the one misbehaving and I gladly report it. > > But so far I have yet to figure that our. > > Are you sure that you did not shutdown your computer from GNOME and did > not pay attention to the new che

Overriding/Masking system generators (Re: system upgrade by systemd)

2015-09-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Dimitri Am 01.09.2015 um 05:57 schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov: > boot, whilst executing itself. And no upstream mechanisms are provided > to disable particular generators. > This is outdated/incorrect knowledge. systemd generators nowadays support being overwritten just like normal unit files.

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 1 September 2015 at 03:43, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 31, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > >> Ideally the update generators, targets and units should be split into >> a separate package and not installed by default. Since those are >> really unexpected on Debian. > No, because the system update

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 31, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Ideally the update generators, targets and units should be split into > a separate package and not installed by default. Since those are > really unexpected on Debian. No, because the system update infrastructure stays idle until some other package tells i

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:04:02 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >Ideally the update generators, targets and units should be split into >a separate package and not installed by default. Since those are >really unexpected on Debian. I would be fine with them being installed but disabled by default.

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Philip Hands
Philipp Kern writes: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:00:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> I have been told by several newbies that the "updates available" >> notification, and them subsequently following the prompts to update >> their own system, was the first time they'd ever felt like they were i

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 03:47:19PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > An user does probably not need an “automatic updates” feature if she > wants such a level of manual control. In which case she can just disable > the updates and do her thing. Absolutely agreed. That's why I'd like to see the use

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Michael Meskes wrote: > In that case, the WLAN access point ("FooAP" or so) should be tagged as > "modem", not sure if n-m can do that. Am trying to file a wishlist > bug for that by BCCing submit@. And? How's that supposed to solve the problem?

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 31 August 2015 at 10:43, Michael Meskes wrote: >> This is getting ridiculous, are you now claiming the Debian Gnome team >> or Gnome upstream was tracking the Windows 10 betas? > > If anything is getting ridiculous then it's people believing we know better > hen the user when a line is to be us

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:41:16PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On the other hand I don't see why I, as a user, need to care about the > constant churn of updates myself. Why do I have to spend brain cycles on > that? What are my options? Am I going to inform myself on each and every Right, every

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Michael Meskes
> This is getting ridiculous, are you now claiming the Debian Gnome team > or Gnome upstream was tracking the Windows 10 betas? If anything is getting ridiculous then it's people believing we know better hen the user when a line is to be used for update ans when not. This is simply impossible. As

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-31 Thread Michael Meskes
> In that case, the WLAN access point ("FooAP" or so) should be tagged as > "modem", not sure if n-m can do that. Am trying to file a wishlist > bug for that by BCCing submit@. And? How's that supposed to solve the problem? I may be just fine using my cell for updates at home, but not while trav

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:00:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I have been told by several newbies that the "updates available" > notification, and them subsequently following the prompts to update > their own system, was the first time they'd ever felt like they were in > charge of a computer, ra

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
eOn Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:00:50 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >Could we perhaps decide to buck this trend, and instead by default >assume that our users are not idiots? > >Then we could just notify them when updates are available (as used to be >the case), and expect them to make an informed decision a

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, > Simon McVittie wrote (30 Aug 2015 15:41:32 GMT) : > >> Or even noconnectivity at all > >> (which at least Android and Windows actively check for using a call-home > >> mechanism.) > > > Both NetworkManager and ConnMan are able to do that, although I don't > > know whether that's enabled in

prevent-unattended-upgrades (was Re: system upgrade by systemd)

2015-08-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Meskes debian.org> writes: > Who said the update failed? I want to make the decision as to when and > how to update my system and I never want to see some stupid software PSA: the src:mirabilos-support package¹ builds a growing number of prevent-* packages; among them is prevent-unattend

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Steve Cotton
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:30:54AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > But in general I think we want that our users get security updates ASAP, I think this implementation doesn't fit that problem. All of this is IIUC: A user who depends on this only gets security updates when they reboot. As long as

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Philip Hands
Marc Haber writes: > On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 14:42:54 +0200, intrigeri > wrote: >>Marc Haber wrote (30 Aug 2015 11:43:09 GMT) : >>> You reasoning again resembles what Microsoft says. >> >>I may be misunderstanding, but given what immediately follows ("I >>don't know whether [...]) it seems to me tha

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread intrigeri
Simon McVittie wrote (30 Aug 2015 15:41:32 GMT) : >> Or even noconnectivity at all >> (which at least Android and Windows actively check for using a call-home >> mechanism.) > Both NetworkManager and ConnMan are able to do that, although I don't > know whether that's enabled in Debian. In both cas

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Simon McVittie (2015-08-30 17:41:32) > On 30/08/15 16:18, Philipp Kern wrote: >> FWIW, it is possible to heuristically detect iPhones and Android >> devices that offer tethering and to discard WWAN connections. But I'm >> not sure if we have a framework on Linux now that would offer an >

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 14:42:54 +0200, intrigeri wrote: >Marc Haber wrote (30 Aug 2015 11:43:09 GMT) : >> You reasoning again resembles what Microsoft says. > >I may be misunderstanding, but given what immediately follows ("I >don't know whether [...]) it seems to me that you're attaching >a negative

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On 30/08/15 16:18, Philipp Kern wrote: > FWIW, it is possible to heuristically detect iPhones and Android devices > that offer tethering and to discard WWAN connections. But I'm not sure > if we have a framework on Linux now that would offer an answer to the > question if you're currently on a band

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > > updates. > > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on > > battery or on a modem connection. > Which is not enough IMO. (W)LAN co

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jakub Wilk (2015-08-30): > * Cyril Brulebois , 2015-08-30, 05:38: > >>JFTR, what is g-s-d? gnome-software-? > > > >kibi@arya:~$ apt-file search /usr/bin/g*-s*-d* > >gnome-settings-daemon: /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon > > To clarify: it only worked because you had g-s-d installed, so your shell

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Frederic Peters
Michael Banck wrote: > I think it probably makes sense to have this on by default for stable > and off by default for testing/unstable. I assume the default option is > not configurable? > > Even better might be a first-boot question asking the user about it, but > I am not sure such a framework

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Marc Haber wrote (30 Aug 2015 11:43:09 GMT) : > You reasoning again resembles what Microsoft says. I may be misunderstanding, but given what immediately follows ("I don't know whether [...]) it seems to me that you're attaching a negative connotation to this statement. In case that's indeed

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:27:02 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: >On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:53:17AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Yes, Windows 10 has _exactly_ the same issue. I am astonished that we >> managed to copy that epic fuckup in such a short time span. > >This is getting ridiculous, are you now c

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 10:30:54 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: >Package: network-manager >Severity: wishlist > >On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: >> > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for >> > updates. >> > The default policy is to not sch

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, Michael Banck wrote: > Package: network-manager > Severity: wishlist > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > > > updates. > > > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 10:30 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Package: network-manager > Severity: wishlist > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > > > updates. > > > The default policy is to no

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:53:17AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Yes, Windows 10 has _exactly_ the same issue. I am astonished that we > managed to copy that epic fuckup in such a short time span. This is getting ridiculous, are you now claiming the Debian Gnome team or Gnome upstream was tracking th

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 05:38:36 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Chris Bannister (2015-08-30): >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> > Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : >> > > Besides, what causes the system to make those package downloads

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Chris Bannister (2015-08-30 09:37:31) > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 05:38:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Chris Bannister (2015-08-30): >>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > Besides,

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:42:13 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on >battery or on a modem connection. Bad policy, there are gazillions of people using mobile hotspots which _are_ metered but appear as a normal WiFi connection. Yes, Wi

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Banck
Package: network-manager Severity: wishlist On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > > updates. > > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on > > battery or on a modem con

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Cyril Brulebois , 2015-08-30, 05:38: JFTR, what is g-s-d? gnome-software-? kibi@arya:~$ apt-file search /usr/bin/g*-s*-d* gnome-settings-daemon: /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon To clarify: it only worked because you had g-s-d installed, so your shell expanded the wildcard. This works ever

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 05:38:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Chris Bannister (2015-08-30): > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > > > > Besides, what causes the system to make those package d

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Meskes
> :D Sorry, it never occurred to me that this was an ambiguous statement. No worries. > Anyway, the issue you encountered was highly likely bug #797138 which is > already fixed in case you have PackageKit 1.0.8 installed. > So, this problem is resolved now and was a bug, not intended behavior. R

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Meskes
> It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > updates. > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on > battery or on a modem connection. Which is not enough IMO. (W)LAN connections cannot be expected to not carry a penalty for download volume.

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Chris Bannister (2015-08-30): > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > > > Besides, what causes the system to make those package downloads before? > > > I may be behind a slow or expensive line and don't

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > > Besides, what causes the system to make those package downloads before? > > I may be behind a slow or expensive line and don't want any downloads > > performed at al

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > Besides, what causes the system to make those package downloads before? > I may be behind a slow or expensive line and don't want any downloads > performed at all. It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit fo

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 03:32:35PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:26:13 +0200, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: > >1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a > >frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated automatically. So, > >you will only see i

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:27:25AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On 08/27/2015 05:19 AM, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > >> Strange - then the install-updates mode should not have been entered in > >> the first place. > > Let me guess, the file was re-created by some software. > As administrator o

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-28 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-08-28 6:03 GMT+02:00 Michael Meskes : > > Having just read this entire thread, and been affected by this once, it > > occurs to me that the likely answer has been offered, but I suspect you > > may have thought Matthias' reference to “GNOME Software” to be a generic > > answer (apologies if I

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-28 Thread Michael Meskes
On 28.08.2015 08:10, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:14:05AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: >>> Is this enough to go on to move this to a report against gnome-software? >> >> Bug reported btw. > > Where? ( "Where to follow the bugreport?" ) #797135 Seems you were faster than th

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:14:05AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Is this enough to go on to move this to a report against gnome-software? > > Bug reported btw. Where? ( "Where to follow the bugreport?" ) This is from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=gnome-software * Ou

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-27 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On 08/27/2015 05:19 AM, Michael Meskes wrote: > >> Strange - then the install-updates mode should not have been entered in >> the first place. > Let me guess, the file was re-created by some software. As administrator of my own systems it would bother me that some random file /remove-my-packages wi

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-27 Thread Michael Meskes
> Is this enough to go on to move this to a report against gnome-software? Bug reported btw. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael.meskes at gmail dot com VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-27 Thread Michael Meskes
> Having just read this entire thread, and been affected by this once, it > occurs to me that the likely answer has been offered, but I suspect you > may have thought Matthias' reference to “GNOME Software” to be a generic > answer (apologies if I'm wrong). But in fact the name of the relevant No,

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:19:18 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I never wanted to execute offline-updates. So seeing those updates > proves that something triggered it, right? Having just read this entire thread, and been affected by this once, it occurs to me that the likely answer has been offer

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Michael Meskes
> Jup, sorry, that was a typo. It's called something like "Restart & > Install updates" There definitely was no such button and besides I shut the system down and started it again the next morning. > Strange - then the install-updates mode should not have been entered in > the first place. Let m

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Michael Meskes
> The GNOME story goes like this: when there are pending updates the > reboot / halt dialog contains a "install pending software updates" > checkbox, unchecked by default (as seen in attached screenshot). So either the update were done despite an unchecked box, or something changed it to be checke

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Michael Meskes
> Are you sure that you did not shutdown your computer from GNOME and did > not pay attention to the new checkbox allowing it to install upgrades > during shutdown/boot? > > I have seen it once already and I have always unchecked it. I may have missed the checkbox, no doubt about that, but I defi

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-08-26 15:17 GMT+02:00 Michael Biebl : > Am 26.08.2015 um 14:48 schrieb Matthias Klumpp: > > Actually, this query: > > > http://codesearch.debian.net/perpackage-results/trigger-offline-update%20-package%3Apackagekit%20-package%3Aaptdaemon/2/page_0 > > is more complete, and shows that likely gn

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:26:13 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a >frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated automatically. So, >you will only see it when you use GNOME with GNOME-Software or any other >tool which trig

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Frederic Peters
Michael Meskes wrote: > > update, you will have chosen to do that by clicking the "Reboot and > > Restart" button. > > Eh? This neither makes sense nor is it true. A "Reboot and Restart" button > (if such a thing existed, could this be a typo?) would not give you any hint > whatsoever that the re

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.08.2015 um 14:48 schrieb Matthias Klumpp: > Actually, this query: > http://codesearch.debian.net/perpackage-results/trigger-offline-update%20-package%3Apackagekit%20-package%3Aaptdaemon/2/page_0 > is more complete, and shows that likely gnome-settings-daemon would trigger > this. Are you sur

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-08-26 14:40 GMT+02:00 Matthias Klumpp : > 2015-08-26 14:27 GMT+02:00 Michael Meskes : > >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> > 1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a >> > frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:39:38AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > There doesn't seem to have a bug report for this. This would be a better > > place to discuss this issue. > > Please tell me which package is the one misbehaving and I gladly report it.

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-08-26 14:27 GMT+02:00 Michael Meskes : > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > 1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a > > frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated automatically. > So, > > you will only see it when

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 26 août 2015 14:17 +0200, Michael Meskes  : >> There doesn't seem to have a bug report for this. This would be a better >> place to discuss this issue. > > Please tell me which package is the one misbehaving and I gladly report it. > But so far I have yet to figure that our. I would have said

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a > frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated automatically. So, > you will only see it when you use GNOME with GNOME-Software or any other > tool w

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:39:38AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > There doesn't seem to have a bug report for this. This would be a better > place to discuss this issue. Please tell me which package is the one misbehaving and I gladly report it. But so far I have yet to figure that our. Michael

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Calm down, people... A few more clarifications: 1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated automatically. So, you will only see it when you use GNOME with GNOME-Software or any other tool which triggers the funct

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Andreas Tscharner
On 26.08.2015 06:05, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Meskes writes: PackageKit uses the very same resolver as apt itself does... A log file of what actually happened would be very helpful here, to determine the problem causing the package removal. Just try an update on a recently updated (Sund

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:35:30 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >This is a feature of systemd and PackageKit. >See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates/ Please disable this for Debian. Not tomorrow, do it today. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 26 août 2015 05:23 +0200, Michael Meskes  : >> Looks like it's probably worth uninstalling all of the packagekit >> stuff if you don't want this horrendous anti-feature. > > Turns out I had only packagekit itself installed. Shouldn't its > description mention this "horrendous anti-feature"? I c

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Meskes
> I'm unclear as to what you have installed that triggers this, because I've > been using systemd and sid for eons and have never encountered this > behavior. (That also makes me pretty sure, pace Steve, that this is not > something *systemd* as systemd is actually doing, but some other > componen

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015, at 08:48 PM, Michael Meskes wrote: > Can anyone tell me which package/configuration is reponsible for systemd > running a package upgrade during bootup? I certainly never willingly > configured this feature, but still have it. And for the second time it > destroyed my system b

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Meskes writes: >> PackageKit uses the very same resolver as apt itself does... A log >> file of what actually happened would be very helpful here, to determine >> the problem causing the package removal. > Just try an update on a recently updated (Sunday) sid system and you'll > see see

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Meskes
> PK does understand apt holds - only Aptitude doesn't set them correctly, > see bug #683099 I wasn't talking about existing holds, but about an update strategy that prioritized removing packages like gnome-control-center over putting some other on hold automatically. I would expect an automatic s

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Meskes
> I used the term "anti-feature" deliberately. I am well aware of what > the systemd devs are trying to achieve here, and I strongly believe > that it is a significant backwards step for Debian. We should not be > doing this and making things worse for our users without (at the very > least!) discu

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Meskes
> The only thing which makes use of this feature is GNOME through > GNOME-Software, so if you don't want this, removing GNOME-Software will > be enough. This is a joke, right? > P.S: A log file on why the update failed would be very helpful though, > because even if you don't use it, the function

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Meskes
> Looks like it's probably worth uninstalling all of the packagekit > stuff if you don't want this horrendous anti-feature. Turns out I had only packagekit itself installed. Shouldn't its description mention this "horrendous anti-feature"? I couldn't agree more on the wording. Actually I consider

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-08-25 23:53 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie : > On 25/08/15 16:18, Michael Meskes wrote: > > And for the second time it > > destroyed my system by deinstalling a lot of packages, instead of > putting the > > conflicting packages on hold. > > That's the major issue here: packagekit and/or gnome-softw

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/08/15 16:18, Michael Meskes wrote: > And for the second time it > destroyed my system by deinstalling a lot of packages, instead of putting the > conflicting packages on hold. That's the major issue here: packagekit and/or gnome-software (I'm not sure which of them is the relevant part here

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 08:35:30PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >This is a feature of systemd and PackageKit. >See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates/ I used the term "anti-feature" deliberately. I am well aware of what the systemd devs are trying to achieve here, and

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Matthias Klumpp
This is a feature of systemd and PackageKit. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates/ The only thing which makes use of this feature is GNOME through GNOME-Software, so if you don't want this, removing GNOME-Software will be enough. Nothing else in Debian uses this[1].

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Michael Meskes wrote: >Can anyone tell me which package/configuration is reponsible for systemd >running a package upgrade during bootup? I certainly never willingly >configured this feature, but still have it. And for the second time it >destroyed my system by deinstalling a lot of packages, inste

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Meskes writes: > Can anyone tell me which package/configuration is reponsible for systemd > running a package upgrade during bootup? I certainly never willingly > configured this feature, but still have it. And for the second time it > destroyed my system by deinstalling a lot of packages

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 25 août 2015 18:03 +0200, Vincent Bernat  : >> Can anyone tell me which package/configuration is reponsible for systemd >> running a package upgrade during bootup? I certainly never willingly >> configured this feature, but still have it. And for the second time it >> destroyed my system by dei

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/08/15 16:18, Michael Meskes wrote: > Can anyone tell me which package/configuration is reponsible for systemd > running a package upgrade during bootup? I think packagekit does the actual upgrade during boot, if one has been staged by some other component. gnome-software is the only PK front

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 25 août 2015 17:18 +0200, Michael Meskes  : > Can anyone tell me which package/configuration is reponsible for systemd > running a package upgrade during bootup? I certainly never willingly > configured this feature, but still have it. And for the second time it > destroyed my system by deinsta