Apt update search for automatic updates even if told not

[Patrik Nilsson]

In /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90_mysettings is "APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0";". Software and updates in settings says it will never search for updates.

Still updates is searched for and displayed. Annoying when you are on a limited mobile broadband.

I expect it not to search for updates.

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

What does the following command return?

apt-config shell UpdateInterval APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Note to anybody - unattended-upgrades doesn't update the package lists.

[Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson)]

@brian-murray

user@ubuntu:~$
user@ubuntu:~$ apt-config shell UpdateInterval APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists
UpdateInterval='0'
user@ubuntu:~$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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