Bug #12390
Consider disabling apt-daily.timer
100%
Description
I suspect it’s gonna run apt update
or similar in the background, which arguably can only cause problems in the context of Tails.
Subtasks
Related issues
Related to Tails - |
Resolved | 2017-03-21 |
History
#1 Updated by intrigeri 2017-03-21 07:20:03
- Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
- Assignee set to intrigeri
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
- Type of work changed from Research to Code
- Affected tool set to Additional Software Packages
This timer manages apt-daily.service
, that starts /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily
, that:
- backs up
/var/lib/apt/extended_states
to/var/backups
(useless in Tails, but eats a a couple kB of RAM) - exits if
APT::Periodic::Enable
is disabled - does various update / clean / download / backup operations, each of them can be disabled via some
APT::Periodic::*
setting
IMO only the autoclean
operation has some value for us, but it should be done by tails-additional-software
that knows when it should happen, while apt-daily.service
can possibly do it at the wrong time, which might prevent tails-additional-software
from doing its work or worse, delete cached packages that are still needed.
So I’ll disable this timer and will report a ticket against tails-additional-software
so that it does its own cleanup.
#2 Updated by intrigeri 2017-03-21 08:01:32
- related to
Bug #12400: tails-additional-software should clean obsolete cached .deb's added
#3 Updated by intrigeri 2017-03-21 08:02:09
- Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
- % Done changed from 10 to 100
Applied in changeset commit:8e86b1f4f2effa93d613ea2932171225e0bc356d.
#4 Updated by intrigeri 2017-03-21 08:19:33
- Assignee deleted (
intrigeri)