limiting update downloads [was Re: should we always install updates by default at each shutdown?]

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 11:26 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > Nothing gets downloaded *at shutdown*. I think he's saying that he
> > wants to be able to disable the background download and only do on
> > -demand updates. I thought this used to be an option in GNOME 
> > Software,
> > but I can't find it on F22.
> 
> Drifting off topic... I'd really like to be able to limit the 
> networks
> that this happens on. Specifically, I _very much_ don't want it to
> happen when I'm tethered to my cell phone, where data is limited and
> expensive. Or at an airport or conference, where bandwidth is 
> terrible.
> And while it's mostly not _my_ problem, it'd be polite to not do it 
> at
> coffee shops and etc.
> 
> That'd be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112230, plus
> getting support for that in Software.

Yes, support for identifying 'expensive' network connections its
working its way through the stack, I recently saw it land in
NetworkManager.