This patch is taken from Debian and modified slightly

Description: Phoning-home version checks should be disabled in Debian packages
Author: Sandro Knauß <bugs@ssandroknauss.de>
Origin: debian
Bug-debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721341
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2014-02-17
---
This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
--- a/src/libsync/configfile.cpp
+++ b/src/libsync/configfile.cpp
@@ -417,11 +417,14 @@ bool ConfigFile::skipUpdateCheck( const
     QString con( connection );
     if( connection.isEmpty() ) con = defaultConnection();

-    QVariant fallback = getValue(QLatin1String(skipUpdateCheckC), con, false);
+    QVariant fallback = getValue(QLatin1String(skipUpdateCheckC), con, true);
     fallback = getValue(QLatin1String(skipUpdateCheckC), QString(), fallback);

     QVariant value = getPolicySetting(QLatin1String(skipUpdateCheckC), fallback);
-    return value.toBool();
+    if ( !value.toBool() )
+        qDebug() << "Guix has disabled the UpdateCheck mechanism.";
+
+    return true;
 }

 void ConfigFile::setSkipUpdateCheck( bool skip, const QString& connection )
--- a/src/gui/generalsettings.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/generalsettings.cpp
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ void GeneralSettings::loadMiscSettings()

 void GeneralSettings::slotUpdateInfo()
 {
+    /* Guix doesn't want an autoupdater
     // Note: the sparkle-updater is not an OCUpdater
     OCUpdater *updater = qobject_cast<OCUpdater*>(Updater::instance());
     if (ConfigFile().skipUpdateCheck()) {
@@ -140,6 +141,9 @@ void GeneralSettings::slotUpdateInfo()
         // can't have those infos from sparkle currently
         _ui->updatesGroupBox->setVisible(false);
     }
+    */
+    //hide the update group box for Guix.
+    _ui->updatesGroupBox->setVisible(false);
 }

 void GeneralSettings::saveMiscSettings()
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<tr><td><span title='2024-10-05 23:42:40 +0800'>2024-10-05</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/tmux.scm?id=f2470fcb5ed1005d990fdcf65458dccf3f895c34'>gnu: tmux: Update to 3.5a.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/tmux.scm (tmux): Update to 3.5a.

Change-Id: I1e92cfcdb374f5a0131354900289766cbdf431e7
Signed-off-by: Zheng Junjie &lt;zhengjunjie@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Ashish SHUKLA via Guix-patches via</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2024-09-27 19:21:15 +0800'>2024-09-27</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/tmux.scm?id=13b2b983ee2189493dc4f86670c1c13daa0c6bc6'>gnu: tmux: Build from git.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/tmux.scm (tmux)[source]: Switch to git-fetch, and use
git-file-name.
[native-inputs]: Add autoconf, automake and pkg-config.

Change-Id: If56abbb76f3b00193bbd27c236a9f82c4f0eb3cb
</span></span></td><td>Zheng Junjie</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2024-09-27 19:11:19 +0800'>2024-09-27</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/tmux.scm?id=d4542b430f807c6de64602e25eebd3cd5aee924f'>gnu: tmux: Update to 3.5.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/tmux (tmux): Update to 3.5.

Change-Id: Ia1f4e6e6d17d8ce76345f06f87247a13b4b5a7bb
Signed-off-by: Zheng Junjie &lt;zhengjunjie@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Ashish SHUKLA via Guix-patches via</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2024-05-12 18:31:25 +0100'>2024-05-12</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/tmux.scm?id=0dac1307ccc9a04df49080f3c76b1018268d7d68'>gnu: tmux: Update to 3.4.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/tmux.scm (tmux): Update to 3.4.
[native-inputs]: Add bison.

Reviewed-by: Dale Mellor &lt;guix-devel-0brg6a@rdmp.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christopher Baines &lt;mail@cbaines.net&gt;
Change-Id: I549010a3cf492ffe9cdc9df25b2b4a93c60c6ae1
</span></span></td><td>Ashish SHUKLA</td></tr>