Every time I boot up Fossapup64 something gets downloaded

[joet12345]

About 10MB of stuff gets downloaded I have verified it about 5 times monitoring with wireshark.

Is there and initial check fossa does and then downloads stuff?

I see connections to:

actiontoad.canocial.com london 91.189.88.152
ganondorf.canocial.com london 91.189.95.85
distro.ibiblio.org 152.19.134.43

and others that I have not yet checked to where they go...

Thanks in advance.

[perdido]

About 10MB of stuff gets downloaded I have verified it about 5 times monitoring with wireshark.

Is there and initial check fossa does and then downloads stuff?

Yes thats the package manager auto updating every time you boot.

You can disable that by moving the file
/root/Startup/PPMupdatedatabase
To the disabled directory--> /root/Startup/disabled

Or delete it if you want, you can always manually update the database
Thanks for pointing that out, it pulled 11.8MB on mine.
It did not do it after moving that file. Unless its laying low waiting to pounce when I'm not looking.
But I think thats it.

[bigpup]

The database files that are being updated are always there.
So, all this update does is replace the database files, with the newer version.
What is actually still in the database info files, is not changed much, if at all.

The repositories are constantly adding or deleting stuff.
The database files are used to tell the Puppy Package Manager (PPM) what is in the different repositories.
These database files are static and only get updated with changes, by using PPM update database or by the auto update, that is in /root/startup/

With PPM, it is easy to forget to run PPM update database, before you use PPM to download and install something.
With old database files being read by PPM.
Good chance the download and install will not be good or miss something, that is now needed.

[Feek]

It seems, that joet12345 didn´t know about auto update of the PPM database and yet the downloaded stuff was probably the auto update.

Does it mean that in Fossapup64 is auto update of PPM database set by default?

I read posts about how it is important in Puppies to update PPM before use by the button in it (manually). I´ll have to look at /root/Startup/ and maybe disable the auto updating, because I use PPM rarely.

Thanks for this topic.

[bigpup]

Does it mean that in Fossapup64 is auto update of PPM database set by default?

Yes, because it has the /root/startup/PPMupdatedatabase file, that runs on startup, and does the PPM database update.
You do have to boot Fossapup for it to run.

PPM has no auto update database option.
It only has a manual config->Update Database->Update Now, that you have to select.