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I got so annoyed with snapd that I finally patched the auto-update functionality to provide control via environment variable. It's ridiculous that this is what

I got so annoyed with snapd that I finally patched the auto-update functionality to provide control via environment variable. It's ridiculous that this is what I have to personally go through in order to maintain control of when updates are applied on my own systems. If enough people were to ever decide to get together and properly fork snapd and maintain the patched version I'd totally dedicate time to helping out. https://gist.github.com/alyandon/97813f577fe906497495439c37dacf37 https://gist.github.com/alyandon/97813f577fe906497495439c37d...

bamboozled 5y ago
Agreed, it's the stupidest thing around, especially because Linux is about having control of your own systems, then they force updates down your throat, it goes against a lot of the things I use Linux for. I just avoid snap and Ubuntu wherever possible now.
agartner 5y ago
We blocked the annoying snapd autoupdate behavior by setting a http proxy to a nonexistent server. Whenever we had a maintenance window we would unset the proxy, allow the update, then set the set the nonexistent proxy server again. Very annoying.
- djbusby 5y ago
  this feels both clever and stupid at the same time - not you but the software games you have to play.
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  - jethro_tell 5y ago
    theres a lot of wasted effort in the games we play to make software work in prod.
    - hkt 5y ago
      From being a production engineer for many years I can only agree: some of the brightest people of our generation spend most of their time compensating for the poor design choices of others. Not sure if this is better or worse than advertising.
- alyandon 5y ago
  That certainly works too but with my approach you can run "snap refresh" manually whenever you feel like updating.
tomrod 5y ago
> If enough people were to ever decide to get together and properly fork snapd and maintain the patched version I'd totally dedicate time to helping out. Is that the gist of flatpak?

bamboozled 5y ago

Agreed, it's the stupidest thing around, especially because Linux is about having control of your own systems, then they force updates down your throat, it goes against a lot of the things I use Linux for. I just avoid snap and Ubuntu wherever possible now.

agartner 5y ago

We blocked the annoying snapd autoupdate behavior by setting a http proxy to a nonexistent server. Whenever we had a maintenance window we would unset the proxy, allow the update, then set the set the nonexistent proxy server again. Very annoying.

djbusby 5y ago
this feels both clever and stupid at the same time - not you but the software games you have to play.
- deleted 5y ago
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- jethro_tell 5y ago
  theres a lot of wasted effort in the games we play to make software work in prod.
  - hkt 5y ago
    From being a production engineer for many years I can only agree: some of the brightest people of our generation spend most of their time compensating for the poor design choices of others. Not sure if this is better or worse than advertising.
alyandon 5y ago
That certainly works too but with my approach you can run "snap refresh" manually whenever you feel like updating.

tomrod 5y ago

> If enough people were to ever decide to get together and properly fork snapd and maintain the patched version I'd totally dedicate time to helping out. Is that the gist of flatpak?