How to disable update notification

[gsal]

I have installed codium in Linux, in a central location for everyone to use; needless to say, only root has write permission to such spot.

Since users cannot really update codium, I would very much like to turn off the "There is an update available " notification; a google search yields user preference settings, but I am looking for a way to set that at the installation level.

is there a way to do this?

[joecool1029]

Looking into this as well for Gentoo since portage manages our updates. It looks like resources/app/product.json file would be where to modify. Just remove the “updateUrl” line with sed or something after installing and updater should be disabled.

[joecool1029]

sed -i "/updateUrl/d" resources/app/product.json 

Add this somewhere in your deployment script. I've submitted a PR for gentoo.

[daiyam]

use "update.mode": "none", in your settings.json....

[joecool1029]

Not the best idea for centralized deployment/management of updates. If the distro or a company's IT management wants the responsibility of handling updates, it's better to disable the server at package level and not risk breaking user config.

[daiyam]

Yeah, I would apply both.

[joecool1029]

I would recommend users apply the second as well, but ultimately it's not a distro's business to mess around with local user config files on every upgrade. Is there a second location we could apply that setting globally in the application directory?