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tom-james-watson
Option to Disable Auto-Updating
Would like an option to disable auto-update on macOS. Constantly having to ignore a request for admin access as a standard user can be frustrating.
Hmm a normal install of breaktimer should not require admin priveleges to auto-update. What is your setup? Are you maybe running as a user that doesn't have admin rights?
I have it setup for my wife's computer. She's not a local admin, just a standard user, so it prompts for admin right when there is an update. I think I found a temp workaround just chmod -R a-w the cache folder.
Can confirm this prevents it from downloading an update and does not prompt for admin rights to install it.
Ok, thanks. Will leave this open because it could also be useful for people who want to refuse an upgrade for some reason (as unrecommended as that is)
Just to note that on Linux it's chmod -R 500 ~/.cache/breaktimer-updater/. While breaktimer is great, on more than one occasion there have been significant updates to the UI that I don't like, and it's good to hold back on upgrading until those have been ironed out.
I am running version 1.3.2 currently on Archlinux. I started getting popups every boot that it will auto-update to 2.0.0 on restart. It never does and in ~/.cache/breaktimer-updater is DEB package downloaded, which is pretty useless on Arch. My updates are done via package manager, so the auto-updater functionality is not needed. I would prefer to have configuration option for this rather than use method that @kitserve posted.
Are you installing from AUR? That's not controlled by me and therefore not something I can support, sorry!
@tom-james-watson that is understandable. I am not asking for AUR support, I am suggesting a checkbox in Breaktimer GUI saying "Don't try to update this app, I can handle it the other way myself". Or something along that line.. Thanks for considering.
@tom-james-watson the workaround mentioned above do not seem to work anymore and this app is again nagging me on every boot. To be honest it is pretty annoying and there should be an option to disable it in the app. Please consider adding it.
