Networkmanager has the option to mark networks as metered. While this is respected everywhere on Android, due to the tiny amout of Desktop Linux users with WWAN cards, this flag has nearly no adoption.
Both GNOME and KDE (at least) support setting a network as metered manually, which is a more realistic procedure, as people may use their phone as a hotspot, with a limited cell data plan.
Rpm-ostree updates can be huge and may eat up such a plan.
Reproduction steps
Use a phone hotspot / usb tether
In the settings configure this network as "metered" manually (as it is not recognized as such)
Enable automatic rpm-ostree updates or update manually
Expected behavior
Rpm-ostree should respect the metered state. A simple example:
If such a flag "unmetered only" (which should be default, as all networks apart from WWAN networks are detected as metered) is set, rpm-ostree will block automatic updates,
and require active user confirmation when initiating a manual rpm-ostree command (read -p "You are using a metered connection. Do you really want to do this? (y/N) " confirmation)
Actual behavior
It just updates and eats up limited cell data plans.
jlebon
commented
8 months ago
Describe the bug
Networkmanager has the option to mark networks as metered. While this is respected everywhere on Android, due to the tiny amout of Desktop Linux users with WWAN cards, this flag has nearly no adoption.
Both GNOME and KDE (at least) support setting a network as metered manually, which is a more realistic procedure, as people may use their phone as a hotspot, with a limited cell data plan.
Rpm-ostree updates can be huge and may eat up such a plan.
Reproduction steps
Use a phone hotspot / usb tether
In the settings configure this network as "metered" manually (as it is not recognized as such)
Enable automatic rpm-ostree updates or update manually
Expected behavior
Rpm-ostree should respect the metered state. A simple example:
If such a flag "unmetered only" (which should be default, as all networks apart from WWAN networks are detected as metered) is set, rpm-ostree will block automatic updates,
and require active user confirmation when initiating a manual rpm-ostree command (
read -p "You are using a metered connection. Do you really want to do this? (y/N) " confirmation)Actual behavior
It just updates and eats up limited cell data plans.
System details
Fedora Kinoite 39
Additional information
No response