[Bug 796879] [NEW] Update Manager Ignores Its Own Mobile Broadband Warning

[Gretha]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: update-manager

Update Manager and Mobile Broadband:  Update Manager Ignores Its Own
Warning and Takes Control


Update Manager (Ubuntu 11.04, fully updated) duly announces when my netbook is connected to the internet via a wireless modem (Mobile Broadband).  Mobile Broadband comes with strict data consumption limits, so this warning makes sense.

The settings for updates on my netbook are:

-  Important Security Updates:  Download and Install Automatically
-  Recommended Updates:  Manual Download and Install

However, when there are updates, Update Manager will happily download
them all anyway -- without my prompting --, both the Important Security
Updates (this is correct) and the Recommended Updates (this is
incorrect).  When I open Update Manager some time after a system
restart, this has already occurred automatically in the background;  it
is a fait accompli, despite the Mobile Broadband warning displayed by
Update Manager.

This can really bite very heavily into my available remaining Mobile
Broadband data allowance.

I of course want to be able to choose which, if any, Recommended Updates
are installed when under Mobile Broadband (and defer any non-essential
ones until I am back under W-Fi), but I seem to have no control.  Update
Manager simply ignores its own wireless modem warning.  This cannot be
right.

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: mobile-broadband update-manager

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Title:
  Update Manager Ignores Its Own Mobile Broadband Warning

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Update Manager and Mobile Broadband:  Update Manager Ignores Its Own
  Warning and Takes Control

  
  Update Manager (Ubuntu 11.04, fully updated) duly announces when my netbook is connected to the internet via a wireless modem (Mobile Broadband).  Mobile Broadband comes with strict data consumption limits, so this warning makes sense.

  The settings for updates on my netbook are:

  -  Important Security Updates:  Download and Install Automatically
  -  Recommended Updates:  Manual Download and Install

  However, when there are updates, Update Manager will happily download
  them all anyway -- without my prompting --, both the Important
  Security Updates (this is correct) and the Recommended Updates (this
  is incorrect).  When I open Update Manager some time after a system
  restart, this has already occurred automatically in the background;
  it is a fait accompli, despite the Mobile Broadband warning displayed
  by Update Manager.

  This can really bite very heavily into my available remaining Mobile
  Broadband data allowance.

  I of course want to be able to choose which, if any, Recommended
  Updates are installed when under Mobile Broadband (and defer any non-
  essential ones until I am back under W-Fi), but I seem to have no
  control.  Update Manager simply ignores its own wireless modem
  warning.  This cannot be right.

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