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R8

Member

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 143

Thunderbird - disable automatic updates

Hello,

Everything was OK for my Thunderbird (SliTaz rolling 32bits).

But yesterday, I updated 2 packages:

2024-09-15 00:19:58 - Installed - json-glib (0.16.2)

2024-09-15 00:19:48 - Installed - cookutils (887)

Result: Thunderbird has decided to do an internal update.

Error message:

cedric@R8:~$ thunderbird-bin

thunderbird-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by thunderbird-bin)

I think that updating the 2 packages has the consequence that Thunderbird's internal update has been activated.

How to disable Thunderbird's internal update?

Thank you.

gibor

Moderator

Registered: 2011-04-30

Posts: 1,067

Re: Thunderbird - disable automatic updates

Hi R8,

same system as mozilla firefox, only you change the folder to operate on to that of thunderbird

https://forum.slitaz.org/topic/firefox-versione-63-o-superiori-come-bloccare-gli-aggiornamenti

R8

Member

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 143

Re: Thunderbird - disable automatic updates

Thank you gibor!

HGT

Administrator

From: Germany

Registered: 2016-03-25

Posts: 170

Re: Thunderbird - disable automatic updates

My suggestion is, that package maintainers always should take care to disable not only automatic updates but prohibit all updates triggered from an installed program, because that causes inconstistencies between the installed version and the information about the version tazpkg has installed and registered in its database.

All updates should be done by a system administrator using tazpkg.

shann

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-01

Posts: 1,296

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Re: Thunderbird - disable automatic updates

Hi,

Infact seem issue that firefox, i update both receipt for thunderbird-bin / thunderbird-bin-fr.

Agree with HGT, in that case, is on our responsability to ensure customer don't have unexcepted issue with auto-update.

Unfortunately for cooking, side effect is that use old glibc, we can't provide new version for firefox/thunderbird.

Sorry R8 for issue you have with thunderbird, thanks for report.