759126 - Have a setting to enable/disable auto updates for Gaia (Gaia Issue #1493)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 744989

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Crossposting bug from github issues.

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/issues/1493

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For QA testing, Gaia is getting automatically downgraded to whatever is out on GAIA_DOMAIN=gaiamobile.org. This affects QA's qualification process unless we're updating gaiamobile.org consistently or we simply turn off updates. Can we get a checkbox or setting where we can disable and enable Gaia auto updates? 

Repro: 
1) SGS2, Nexus S 5-24-2012 build 
2) make flash with custom builds from release.mozilla.org/b2g 
3) verify Gaia builds get downgraded 

Expected: - A checkbox to enable/disable gaia updates from gaiamobile.org would be great for QA to test against 

Actual: - check for updates is automatic if GAIA_DOMAIN=gaiamobile.org, and we get "downgraded" to whats live. We dont necessarily want that for testing.

::Could you open an issue on bugzilla? This fix for this issue will mosty lives in the platform and change the behavior of the application cache. @cgjones and @andreasgal have some opinions on that too iirc.