On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 13:54:35 -0500
Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Dario Lesca wrote:
> How to I can disable packagekid to download update?
You can disable downloading of updates via gsettings:
gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false
Doing this prevents rpms from accumulating, but you still end up with
several hundred megabytes of repo metadata (which isn't ever cleaned
up for old releases, so it builds up). I just checked and there was
800M on my system, with 147M for f26, which I have am not yet
running. When I do upgrade, it will be via dnf system-upgrade, so the
PackageKit data does nothing for me.
Alternatively, you can remove PackageKit and gnome-software if you
don't use them:
sudo dnf remove PackageKit* gnome-software
Another alternative for disabling PackageKit is to move the file
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service
to
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service.bak
in the /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/ directory.
You'll also have to move the file
kde-org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service
to
kde-org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service.bak
in the /usr/share/dbus-1/services directory if you have kde installed.
This will have to be done every time PackageKit is updated, but that
isn't all that often.
I keep PackageKit around because even though I like to do my updates
from the command line in a virtual console, I keep Gnome around, and it
is an integral part of Gnome.