1033352 - Disable system update checks on OS X machines

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: Puppet, task)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

On QA slaves, which are running OS X, I see update popups open. Checking the preferences for software updates, I can see that we automatically check for those.

The popups can cause pain for our Mozmill tests because Firefox is loosing focus when those popup. Therefore automatic checks should be disabled.

Dustin, I don't know what the usual procedure is here on releng machines, and when those are getting updated. So please let me know.

Comment 1

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

See modules/disableservices/manifests/common.pp:

            case $::macosx_productversion_major {
                # 10.6 doesn't seem to have a way to disable software update, but later versions do
                10.6: {}
                10.7, 10.8: {
                    service {
                        [
                            'com.apple.softwareupdatecheck.initial',
                            'com.apple.softwareupdatecheck.periodic',
                        ]:
                            enable => false,
                            ensure => stopped,
                    }
                }
                10.9: {
                    service {
                        'com.apple.softwareupdated':
                            enable => false,
                            ensure => stopped,
                    }
                }
            }

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Well, currently we include 'disableservices::slave' which inherits from 'disableservices::common'. So this would mean update checks are disabled. Given that this is not the case, we have a bug in this module?

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Or wait. As I see now it only disables the service, but does not modify the system preferences?

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

So '/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/softwareupdated' is indeed not running on this Mac. Maybe the the little notification on the AppStore Dock icon was always present, and I just haven't noticed that yet.

So lets close this bug for now as WFM.