Re: Disable check for updates in Opera

On 13 June 2011 07:53, Serdar Dalgic <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Eir Nym <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 13 June 2011 07:20, Serdar Dalgic <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm packaging Opera for my Linux distribution Pardus.
>> >
>> > For one of our releases (corporate2) updates will not be so frequently,
>> > thus, I need to disable the check for new versions.
>> >
>> > While packaging, how can I disable Opera to not to check for a newer
>> > version?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> >
>>
>> You can checkout opera:config page and corresponding operaprefs.ini
>> settings
>>
>
> You mean opera:config#UserPrefs|DisableOperaPackageAutoUpdate , right?
>
> But what I really want is disabling "the check for newer versions of Opera"
> functionality by default for all packages. So is there a way to disable this
> while creating the package with "./install --prefix /usr --force --repackage
> D" ? Or where should I patch the source before packaging the software?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

Please, refer for http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/
This is the best way to manage this.
Also you should note, that Linux and FreeBSD Opera only want to check
for update if it had been installed system-wide. So you have to
disable checking  in system configuration file with simple
post-install patch.

Don't forget about security updates!

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