Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

When i'm not at home and there is no wifi i connect to the internet via my supporter (vodafone) and app manager automatically start to update in the background consuming large amount of credit, so wherever i'm outdoor and i wanted to connect i manually disable all catalogues one by one and then connect and when i'm home i check them back.
Is there a command that i can type to disable all catalogues at once and then return them back when i'm offline ?
i'm aware of but it only sets the intervals between the updates and its not what i'm looking for.

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

so, any1 ?

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

Set the check interval to a stupidly high number so it's effectively disabled.

Then occasionally do a 'apt-get update' at the command line, and 'apt-get upgrade' if you want to run a upgrade.

Edit - reason: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=119 - sorry I forgot you don't like my posts.

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

The catalogues are stored in /etc/hildon-application-manager/catalogues, so you could probably do (as root):

Disable all:
Enable all:
I've not tested this myself though, so make sure you take a backup of the files beforehand!

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

nice memory you have, but lets take a look at what i said

oh, i said i'm not looking for changing the intervals..so you are right when you said :

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i tried it but didn't work, i suppose its a command to replace all the enables words with disables..if thats so i opened catalogues file and there were no "enable" word there, only disable for a couple of catalogues i disabled before.

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

My point was that changing the intervals might actually be the right thing to do to achieve what you want. Just because you've decreed that it shouldn't be part of the solution does not mean it's not valid. Also, didn't you notice the strikeout line right though my 'solution'?

But why am I even bothering to waste my time when you've made it clear that you "don't like my posts".

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

One way to prevent unwanted automatic updates is to disable all repositories in HAM and use Faster Application Manager (FAM) as your main application manager. Is that an option?

Manually updating software is possible with FAM so long as you have the appropriate repositories set up and enabled but you won't get that little yellow symbol in the status area.

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

1. Use ifup/ifdown scripts to enable/disable the the checking depending on the network connection.

2. Use rob1n's method, except use sed to put a '#' infront of everyline.

3. Jedi's solution.


Personally I would opt for Jedi's solution, it is the easiest/most foolproof to implement.

Just accept that maybe once a month you should check for updates with HAM, hell even put a reminder in the calender if it matters that much. Frankly, updates are pretty rare and people useually talk on the forum if there are any. Further more this mitigates the daily PITA that is that stupid update check.

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

@demolition : thanks for the advice but i still want to use HAM as my 1ry application manager and i'm sure therer is a command that can edit catalogues file as Rob1n said

Re: Disable all catalogues at once ?
 

yes there is: