Savvas: that's great, but it's not exactly something the average user
could do. Either we need to make gnome-schedule drag-and-drop (drag an
icon onto it and it sets up a scheduled task), pre-populate it with the
most commonly-requested tasks, or we need to build this in to Update
Manager.
Gerv
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>That's handy to know. Although it seems to me that internet tariffs
with "unlimited" time and "pay-per-GB" time are reasonably common, so it
would be useful if update-manager had a GUI option to set a time at
which to start the process. Or even a way to say "Run an update at time
X:XX every Y days
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Status: New => Confirmed
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Allow delay of update-manager download start to use cheap bandwidth
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Nothing so complicated. Let's not let the best be the enemy of the good.
I'm just asking for a delay mechanism (Start at time X, or Start in X
hours).
Gerv
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So what you're basically suggesting is a bandwidth scheduling or traffic
shaping / throttle schedule?
deluge-torrent has something similar to what you suggest for bittorrent
downloads, a plugin that can set the download/upload rate to full or lower or
even disable at some times of the day, with
That's handy to know. Although it seems to me that internet tariffs with
"unlimited" time and "pay-per-GB" time are reasonably common, so it
would be useful if update-manager had a GUI option to set a time at
which to start the process. Or even a way to say "Run an update at time
X:XX every Y days.
You may play with the command "at" (see the at man page).
With it you can run something like (as root):
$ sudo at 00:01 tomorrow
at> apt-get update
at> apt-get --download-only -y dist-upgrade
at> [press ctrl-d when finished]
This will download the debs into a local cache. When you get up in the
m
Not something that's likely to get done before Hardy release but I'll
add this to the wishlist to be looked at later
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