Updates to snapd package on Arch

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Thre is a schedule involved … see:

Refresh-schedule via core config

The new snapd 2.25 has a new feature to set the refresh schedule within a 24h window. This allows to say that you want updates only between 4:00-7:00 in the morning for example or between 4:00-7:00 and 19:00-22:00. The syntax is: $ sudo snap set core refresh.schedule=4:00-7:00/19:00-21:00 Note that a refresh may happen outside of this window if your last refresh is too old, in this case snapd will refresh even outside the scheduled windows.

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Disabling automatic refresh for snap from store

I really need some way to disable the automatic updates of Snap’s from the store. As far as I know this isn’t possible right now. Background: I’m the maintainer of the FRR Snap (See FRRouting.org), a routing daemon implementing all the different routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, PIM, etc). Snap’s are great, specially for installation on Whitebox switches, but the automatic update is killing it. Whenever I push a new snap to the store, all the users have a unexpected outage for a few min…