Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

[Rex Dieter]

stan wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 13:54:35 -0500
> Todd Zullinger  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

The poster asked how to disable "download updates", not how to disable 
PackageKit completely (a very different question and solution)

-- Rex