# Only the system administrator should modify this file, ordinary users # should not have to change anything. [Daemon] # Should we log transactions to the database. # # default=true TransactionLogging=true # Use NetworkManager where available. If disabled, then NM state will be ignored. # # default=true UseNetworkManager=true # Use Connman where available. If disabled, then Connman state will be ignored. # # default=false UseNetworkConnman=false # If neither NetworkManager nor ConnMan is not available, then use the presence # of default route to indicate a viable network connection. # If disabled, and no NM or CM, then the network is assumed to be always online. # # default=true UseNetworkHeuristic=true # If we should use the estimated time value. # This will be inaccurate where backends do not send proportional percentage # changed signals, or when updates are not frequent enough. # Estimated time will then only be used when the prediction accuracy is high # enough and will not be set at the very start or end of a transaction. # # default=true UseRemainingTimeEstimation=false # Shut down the daemon after this many seconds idle. 0 means don't shutdown. # # default=300 ShutdownTimeout=300 # Unlock the backend after this many seconds idle. # # default=5 BackendShutdownTimeout=5 # Set the priority of the spawned backend to this priority. # This ensures the process does not hog the system when performing actions. # # Values range from -20 (most favorable) to 19 (least favorable) # A niceness value of 0 will not attempt to set any priority. # # default=0 BackendSpawnNiceValue=0 # Set the priority of the spawned backend to this priority for low priority tasks. # This ensures the process does not hog the system when performing actions. # # Values range from -20 (most favorable) to 19 (least favorable) # A niceness value of 0 will not attempt to set any priority. # # default=10 BackendSpawnNiceValueBackground=10 # Set the iopriority class of the spawned backend to idle. # This ensures the process does not hog the disk when performing actions. # # default=true BackendSpawnIdleIO=true # Set the iopriority class of the spawned backend to idle for low priority tasks. # This ensures the process does not hog the disk when performing actions. # # default=true BackendSpawnIdleIOBackground=true # Set whether the spawned backends are allowed to be SIGKILLed if they do not # respond to SIGQUIT. This ensures that Cancel() works as expected, but # somtimes can corrupt databases if they are open. # # Only change this to FALSE if your backend can not be SIGKILLed without # database corruption. # # Even if this is set TRUE, the backend can still enforce this FALSE if it it # explicitly set in the compiled backend. You can think of this as a fallback # value that is used when backends do not enforce policy, or as a way to disable # SIGKILL even for backends that calim to support it. # # default=true BackendSpawnAllowSIGKILL=true # Default backends, as chosen in the configure script. This will be used # where no --backend="foo" option is given to the daemon. # # The order they are specified is the order they are tried, so for the # value "foo,bar" first "foo" will be attempted and then "bar" if the # libpk_backend_foo.so module load failed. # # default=yum DefaultBackend=presolve # Use syslog to audit and log actions where available. # # default=false UseSyslog=false # Proxy settings, uncomment as required # # NOTE: PackageKit does not use these settings, they are passed to backends. # Backends may ignore these values. If either of ProxyHTTP or ProxyFTP # are set then the users proxy settings are ignored. # # They are in the format username:password@server:port # # ProxyHTTP=username:password@server.lan:8080 # ProxyFTP=server.lan:21 # Scan installed desktop files when we update or install packages # # NOTE: Don't enable this for backends that are slow doing SearchFile() # # default=true ScanDesktopFiles=true # Update the package list when we refresh the cache # # NOTE: Don't enable this for backends that are slow doing GetPackages() # # default=true UpdatePackageList=true # Check for running processes when we update packages # # NOTE: Don't enable this for backends that are slow doing GetFiles() on # installed files. # # default=true UpdateCheckProcesses=true # Check for shared libraries that are in use, that are replaced by packages # that are marked as security updates. # # NOTE: Don't enable this for backends that are slow doing GetFiles() on # installed files. # # default=true CheckSharedLibrariesInUse=true # Check for updates in testing repositories when we check for updates # # NOTE: Don't enable this if you do not want testing updates to be checked # as this will increase the network bandwidth used. # # default=true CheckTestingRepos=true # Use update cache when possible to avoid using the backend # # NOTE: Enabling this reduces calls to the backend, although using the # SetHints(cache-age) parameter will return unpredicable results for # transactions. # # default=false UseUpdateCache=false # Use strict developer checking in the daemon # # This should be set to TRUE if the backend should be run in strict compliance # mode, which is useful when developing a backend. Normal sane users should not # have to use this mode. # # If this is set to FALSE, then the daemon will try to 'fix' any craziness in # the backend without notifying the end user. # # default=false DeveloperMode=false # The time in seconds to wait when we get the StateHasChanged method # # This should be used when a native tool has been used, and the update UIs # should be updated to reflect reality. # # default=30 StateChangedTimeoutPriority=30 # The time in seconds to wait after the computer has been resumed or any non # package related system event # # We don't want to be doing an update check at the busy time after a resume # # default=600 StateChangedTimeoutNormal=600 # The maximum number of requests a given user is able to request and queue # # Setting this lower decreases the risk of a local denial of service, but may # cause errors if the desktop client is doing many requests to the daemon in a # short period of time. # # default=500 SimultaneousTransactionsForUid=500 # The maximum number of items that can be resolved in one method # # Setting this lower decreases the risk of a local denial of service, but may # cause errors if the desktop client is trying to resolve a large number of # packages in one method. # # default=100 MaximumItemsToResolve=100 # The maximum number of packages that can be processed in one method # # Setting this lower decreases the risk of a local denial of service, but may # cause errors if the desktop client is trying to do a large transaction. # # default=2500 MaximumPackagesToProcess=2500 # How long the transaction is valid before it's destroyed, in seconds # # The client only has a finite amount of time to use the object, else it is # destroyed. Setting this longer will allow malicious clients to queue up large # number of authentication requests, but setting this shorter will reduce the # amount of time the user has to authenticate. # # default=300 TransactionCreateCommitTimeout=300 # How long the transaction should be queriable after it is finished, in seconds # # Give the client a few seconds to still query the transaction after it has # finished by keeping it on the bus. Setting this larger allows clients to query # the transaction without accessing the database, but increases memory usage. # # default=5 TransactionKeepFinishedTimeout=5 # If certain operations should be done using IDLE bandwidth # # TCP Low Priority is a congestion control algorithm included in the kernel. # Connections using this algorithm will use only idle bandwidth. In other words, # it is a self-tuning TCP stack. Setting this to FALSE will mean that the check # for updates happens more quickly, at the expense of other network applications # such as firefox and other file downloaders. # # If the user is running the network at 100% for extended periods of time, then # the update check may be starved and take a very long time to complete. In this # rare case, this setting should be set to FALSE. # # By also setting this setting to TRUE makes the possibility of a environment # mismatch much higher for a spawned backend. This will make switching from idle # operations (such as GetUpdates) and full speed operations (such as # InstallPackages) take longer. If this is a concern, then set this to FALSE. # # default=true UseIdleBandwidth=true # Processes that cannot be updated when they are running # # Some processes do not cope well when they are upgraded when the binary is # running. These include things like firefox, where updating causes the original # instance to misbehave as some components are not locked in memory. # # Applications can be added here that do not cope well with being updated. # # NOTE: you should not list applications here that the user has no permission # or cannot shutdown without the session exploding. For instance, listing # /sbin/dbus-daemon or /usr/sbin/haldaemon would be a really bad idea. # # Seporate entries can be seporated with the ';' character. # # default=/usr/lib/*/firefox NoUpdateProcessList=/usr/lib/*/firefox # If the backend should use threads to avoid blocking the daemon for other users # # The daemon, packagekitd, is shared by multiple users. Users are allowed to # create and send transactions when other transactions are being processed. # To do this, the backend action is created in a thread, but some libraries # notably libdbus and dbus-glib, are less threadsafe then they probably should # be. # # Only developers need to change this value, normally for debugging purposes. # # default=true UseThreadsInBackend=true # If a custom root should be used when installing packages # # A custom route can be used to install to a LTSP instance or a virtual machine # image, typically using chroot or by mounting an image using virt-inspector. # # Additional authentication is required to change the root from the default. # # Most users do not need to change this value, as you need to have setup a # native package database (e.g. the rpmdb) on the new root. # # default=/ UseRoot=/