Bug 440078

Summary:	Support disabling updates on live system
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	Alex <alex765>
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	aleixpol, nate, ngompa13, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.22.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alex 2021-07-20 15:15:31 UTC

At the moment, when using Discover on a live system, you're able to install updates, which shouldn't be allowed. On a live system, discover should still be able to install and uninstall apps, but not perform system updates.

So maybe this could just be a configuration option which hides the update option on the left pane.

I originally filed this issue downstream here https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/60

Comment 1 Neal Gompa 2021-07-20 23:44:43 UTC

Discover can "discover" (lol) from the kernel command-line whether or not we're running on live OSes by looking at kernel args to see if "rd.live.image" is in the kernel command-line. Discover can self-disable by default when that is present in the kernel command line.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2021-07-29 13:55:18 UTC

I'm not necessarily convinced this is a good idea.  Live users should be able to update/install items if they wish (even if it's not necessarily a good idea)

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-01-12 18:11:10 UTC

Discover offers support for "Offline Updates" which implements this feature.

Distros get to choose whether it's on or off by default, and a number have opted in--at least Fedora and Neon, off the top of my head. Users can also opt in if their distro doesn't do this.