From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: 32997@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32997: Kodi phones home to check for updates
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:48:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009094827.GB1127@macbook41> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=pgkb3eeyeV+u2mvnmygE4ZeGEPww_ebpHEQ24AfSgbz=w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 11:43:18AM +0200, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 9.,
> K, 10:14):
>
> > I launced kodi for my kids to watch some videos and I got a pop-up
> > telling me that 18-beta3 was available for download. We should patch out
> > the update checker.
> >
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> > Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר
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> >
>
> As a workaround you could try to configure Kodi to not check for updates.
> 1.~ From the Kodi home screen click SYSTEM>ADD-ONS>MY ADD-ONS.
> 2.~ SERVICES>VERSION CHECK>CONFIGURE.
> 3.~ Untick Enable Kodi Version Check>click OK>untick AUTO-UPDATE.
> (did not try this myself)
> Do you think that modifying the default configuration is enough, or should
> we completely remove this functionality?
I think it'd be better to completely remove the functionality, there's
nothing an end-user can really gain since we've packaged the software.
I also think we're due for an update to the package :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-09 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-09 8:13 bug#32997: Kodi phones home to check for updates Efraim Flashner
2018-10-09 9:43 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-09 9:48 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2018-10-21 13:40 ` Efraim Flashner
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