Automatic update ran despite being disabled (which is bad)

[Frank Schmitt]

Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:

> Michael B Allen wrote:
>> About 15 minutes ago a dialog popped up that claimed "Your system has
>> been updated" (or something to that effect). The problem is, I didn't
>> initiate an update and my system is not configured to automatically
>> update.
>> 
>> Can anyone explain how this could happen?
>
> Are you using KPackageKit?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475303
>
> Yes, I hate that bug too. But I looked at the code and didn't find the
> slightest clue as to how it may happen, nor did the KPackageKit upstream
> author.

Isn't this a sure sign that the underlying mechanism is to complicated?

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