Public bug reported:
Xubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
My ISP is ViaSat Exede satellite service. They have a monthly data cap
but it doesn't apply during specific time periods. With my specific
service it is called "Late Night Free Zone" (LNFZ) and occurs between
12:00 and 05:00 in my time zone (it's relative to each subscriber's time
zone).
Currently apt-daily.timer schedules updates at 06:00 and 18:00 according to:
/lib/systemd/system/apt-daily.timer
This unnecessarily wastes MBs of my data cap retrieving updates that
won't be installed outside of the LNFZ anyways. I would also like to
enable all automatic updates but only within the LNFZ. But there
doesn't seem to be a way to change the schedule without editing the file
directly and using dpkg-divert to protect it from reverting during
updates.
There needs to be an easier way to change this, either in /etc/default
or /etc/apt, and preferably via front-ends like software-properties-gtk.
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667797
Title:
Need manual control over apt update schedule
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Xubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
My ISP is ViaSat Exede satellite service. They have a monthly data
cap but it doesn't apply during specific time periods. With my
specific service it is called "Late Night Free Zone" (LNFZ) and occurs
between 12:00 and 05:00 in my time zone (it's relative to each
subscriber's time zone).
Currently apt-daily.timer schedules updates at 06:00 and 18:00 according to:
/lib/systemd/system/apt-daily.timer
This unnecessarily wastes MBs of my data cap retrieving updates that
won't be installed outside of the LNFZ anyways. I would also like to
enable all automatic updates but only within the LNFZ. But there
doesn't seem to be a way to change the schedule without editing the
file directly and using dpkg-divert to protect it from reverting
during updates.
There needs to be an easier way to change this, either in /etc/default
or /etc/apt, and preferably via front-ends like software-properties-
gtk.
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