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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: SMplayer: Update notification
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:18:09
Message-Id: kqpso0$n9c$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SMplayer: Update notification by Mick
1 On 30/06/2013 09:19, Mick wrote:
2 > On Saturday 29 Jun 2013 17:45:31 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I am using smplayer to play DVB-T, since Kaffeine stucks with some
6 >> channels.
7 >>
8 >> This evening, smplayer notifies me, that a new version will be
9 >> available.
10 >>
11 >> SMplayer is only able to know this by automonously accesing the
12 >> internet and its home site.
13 >>
14 >> I dont like this.
15 >>
16 >> How can I swith this off?
17 >>
18 >> Best regards,
19 >> mcc
20 >
21 > In my ~/.config/smplayer/smplayer.ini, I have these lines:
22 >
23 > [update_checker]
24 > checked_date=@Variant(\0\0\0\xe\0%{\x99)
25 > last_known_version=0.8.5.5487
26 >
27 > [smplayer]
28 > stable_version=0.8.5
29 > check_for_new_version=true
30 >
31 > You may want to try setting this to 'check_for_new_version=false' and restart
32 > it.
33 >
34
35 Hi,
36
37 If this is bothering people, please file a bug with this information and
38 we can probably have it included by default. I know we disable update
39 checkers for a number of other packages too.
40
41 Best regards,
42 Michael