Re: unwanted checks for updates.

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/21/18 11:50 AM, home user via users wrote:
> (replying to several)
>
> Sometime after saying that what Ed suggested and that it worked. I discovered that it
> was overkill.  I launched "apper", and it failed because "PackageKit" was not running. 
> Having read the postings since my Dec. 18 message...

apper is packagekit based.  dnf is not packagekit based.

This is the first time I've seen you mention apper.
> (Tom said)
> > But as I discovered, if you disable that, and simply run
> >
> > dnf update
> >
> > it will never think there are any updates available. ...
>
> Having seen that, to do the weekly patches this morning, I first did
> systemctl unmask packagekit.service

No need to do that since you're using dnf.
> and then (after rebooting) proceeded to do
> dnf upgrade --refresh