998322 - Disable auto-updating by default

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 792992

(Testing :: mozregression, defect)

Description

[Elbart]

Especially during bisecting Fennec-builds, the auto-update starts merely seconds after Nightly has been started when connected via wifi.

Updating isn't really necessary during a mozregression-bisection.

For bisecting (auto-)update-issues, maybe there should be a parameter like --autoupdate or so.

Comment 1

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

I agree this is annoying. For desktop we should set the "app.update.enabled" pref to False.

Wes, is there a profile setting or something we can use to disable auto-updates for Android? (feel free to NI someone else who does know the answer if you don't)

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Snorp sorta owns this code.

Comment 3

[Elbart]

(In reply to William Lachance (:wlach) from comment #1)
> For desktop we should set the "app.update.enabled"
> pref to False.
That's already the case via mozprofile:
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/mozbase/mozprofile/mozprofile/profile.py#334

Comment 4

[Sam Garrett]

(In reply to Elbart from comment #3)
> (In reply to William Lachance (:wlach) from comment #1)
> > For desktop we should set the "app.update.enabled"
> > pref to False.
> That's already the case via mozprofile:
> http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/mozbase/mozprofile/
> mozprofile/profile.py#334

As Elbart said above in FF this setting is getting passed through:

     2:43.57 LOG: MainThread Regression Runner INFO Starting nightly (revision: 0e631971b841)
     prefs: {..., 'app.update.enabled': False, ...}

Comment 5

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Eugen is taking care of this in bug 998322