I think ORBIT_DISABLE_UPDATES=true is respected by the ongoing orbit process, but if you run orbit shell it attempts to update itself. I see in orbit.go that it has this line to check the variable: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/d6bcf6cb212aaaf5bd2feb3fec6a77329f73c7fd/orbit/cmd/orbit/orbit.go#L547 But in shell.go there’s no checking the variable. It just creates a new updater: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/d6bcf6cb212aaaf5bd2feb3fec6a77329f73c7fd/orbit/cmd/orbit/shell.go#L66

Ah good catch! Could you open a Github issue? Happy to do it too.

Yeah, I’ll submit that shortly. It’ll probably be 11am Eastern by the time I submit it?

Also, curious to hear why running with

ORBIT_DISABLE_UPDATES=true

🙂

our linux users want all updates to come through package manager.