Re: AAUGH! More "helpful" software!

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:54:15AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I try to shutdown my new fedora 32 virtual machine.
> It immediately says:
>
> "Installing updates, do not turn off"
>
> AAAAAAUGH! I don't want to install frigging updates (yet).
>
> How do I reinstall fedora and turn this crap off
> before I shutdown the next time?

I think it's the packagekit-offline-update.service that actually
performs the update during shutdown (triggered by
system-update.target).  I bet if you run:
'systemctl mask packagekit-offline-update.service'
... it will disable the updates during shutdown.

(It's really annoying to me because I have a luks password and when I
thought I was shutting down I show up a couple hours later at a
LUKS password prompt)