Disable automatic download of updates
jd1008
jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 20:47:53 UTC 2014
On 10/17/2014 11:50 PM, John Tall wrote:
> Hello.
>
> After installing the Fedora 21 Alpha with GNOME I've found that the
> system now downloads updates automatically and notifies me when they
> are ready to be installed. This is a very handy feature, but from what
> I can tell it looks like the packages are downloaded automatically in
> the background. I'm often on a mobile hotspot and don't have the
> capacity to download sometimes hundreds of megabytes of packages. How
> do I disable the automatic download in Fedora 21?
>
> John
>
>
You have a package installed called:
yum-updatesd-0.9-15.fc20.noarch
You have the option of disabling it or removing it.
To disable it:
sudo systemctl disable yum-updatesd
To remove it:
sudo rpm -e yum-updatesd
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