<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Joshua Andrews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodguy552010@yahoo.com">woodguy552010@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I had packagekit to check for updates once a day but it seem like every 2 minutes yumBackend.py is running using a lot of CPU.<br>
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I set Packagekit to check for updates never and yumBackend.py is still at it.. I'd like to use my CPU for more than just checking for updates.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Some upstream developers don't want to give you a choice to uninstall packagekit :)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699348">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699348</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>yum remove gnome-packagekit, should remove the gui parts.</div><div><br></div><div>A hack to disable the backend is to edit</div><div><br></div><div>/etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf</div><div><br></div>
<div>and change</div><div><br></div><div>DefaultBackend=yum</div><div><br></div><div>to </div><div><br></div><div>DefaultBackend=nobackend</div><div><br></div><div>Then you get PackageKit out of you face.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Tim</div></div>