Idea
#6016: Add 'Do not Update This' option to Update Manager
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Written by mridkash the 29 Mar 08 at 16:58.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
This issue is something I face regularly and thats why I'm posting it here.
I want a right click option on the updates in Update Manager which allows me to lock the version of a software and not update it. I know this functionality exists somewhere in Synaptic Package Manager, but still it would be convenient.
Example:
I have nvidia card on desktop and there was an intel video driver update recently, so it came up in Update Manager. I didn't want to install it obviously, so I unchecked it. But still every time I boot up, it shows new updates are available, and I see only that intel driver. If I get a 'do not update option' it would be handy.
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jonas_lindeloev wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 19:20
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I have the same problem with wine. I've installed a few applications in wine and they work fine, but they may fail if wine is updated - so I have to uncheck wine everytime I use update-manager and live with the constant update-manager icon in my panel!
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csulok wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 19:57
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lock version in synaptic
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Xan wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 21:12
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Good for custom kernel too.
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AndrewC wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 22:02
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Good idea. By the way, the Intel driver update is harmless. I installed it just so I wouldn't be asked to update to it every time I ran Adept updater.
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mridkash wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 03:35
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I know there is a facility in Synaptic.
But see for example, I have over 100 updates still pending, and mostly are useless for me.
Gnome games updates
Evolution updates
Language packs
countless libs
Restricted module updates
etc etc
So if I want to lock version in synaptic, I have to search for every single package and then lock it. Time consuming.
Also, suppose later, I want to unlock them, then again I have to search for every package and unlock it.
It would be better if Update Manager has a hidden updates category containing all updates marked as hidden, at the bottom. So that it alerts me *only* when I have new updates available, rather than unwanted ones.
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oxigen wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 08:45
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Yes, good idea!
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ld_barthel wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 10:43
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No major searching is required. In Synaptic, click on "Status" then "Installed (upgradable)". For packages that are currently locked, click on "Pinned".
However, it seems to me that if you have over 100 candidates for locking that you are being overly restrictive with respect to security updates. I currently have exactly 6 packages pinned because I need to run the 2.6.20 kernel to support my laptop's HDA Intel sound chip. Other than those 6, my gutsy system is current and no updates have broken anything. YMMV.
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mridkash wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 12:36
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Those 103 are not security packages but recommended updates.
And the reason why I don't update them is bandwidth. I'm on limited internet connection and the update files are over 145 mb.
And I have to turn off notification because of this, it'll always keep telling me that there are new updates are available. So when really new updates come, I have to sift through hundreds of others to find the new ones.
Once I uncheck a particular update, the software should remember that I unchecked it.
Also, I have downloaded the code for update manager, it is in python and in a single file only. It might not be hard to fix it. There is a event in there which handles 'toggle'. If it can be made to remember 'toggle state' or something then this issue can be solved.
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noodlesgc wrote on the 14 Apr 08 at 16:52
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Just click "Lock Version" in synaptic
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boga wrote on the 1 Jun 08 at 13:29
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Yes, it would be very convenient. If someone uses Update Manager rather than Synaptic in order to update it is much easier to right-click an update and select to hide it rather than to start Synaptic, etc.
Also two options would be really useful: one to hide the update permanently until explicitly enabled and another one to hide this particular version (so it gets unhidden when the next version is available). E.g. I don't use evolution and I don't care about it's updates so I can disable them permanently. OTOH the modules packages contain many modules for different hardware, the present update may be not interesing for me because it contains updates for modules I don't use but I don't want to disable it completely since the next update may contain the modules I do need.
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boga wrote on the 3 Jul 08 at 06:26
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A similar but may be easier to implement option would be to stop listing updates in the update manager after a specified amount of time (though updates still available from Synaptic).
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Tuxoid wrote on the 4 Jul 08 at 06:19
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I think what would better is if APT marked packages in an update with conditional breaks. Say you're are updating your kernel, but that's gonna break your audio. In this case, APT marks a break, and holds the update, until it can be done safely.
I don't know how much work Ubuntu puts into apt, but this would be a great feature. If the feature already exists, there are many cases where it could be used more.
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