On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 10:07 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > I'm getting to the point where I never want to use the graphical > software update facility, since it is ALWAYS wrong. > > I just logged in, pulled up software update, and knowing that it > routinely messes up and says that there is nothing to update, I asked > it to recheck for updates. It came back again with no updates. > > Then (since I'm developing a deep distrust of software update), I did > a > CLI dnf update. There were 27 updates pending. Clearly, software > update is broken. > > Its possible that it is configured out-of-the-box wrong. Is there > anything that I can set to make it actually work, or should I just > stop > using it because it is too broken to fix? > > Example where software update has totally failed: > > [prodadm@production ~]$ sudo dnf update > [sudo] password for prodadm: > Fedora 22 - x86_64 - Updates 2.3 MB/s | 14 MB > 00:06 > Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:14 ago on Sun Sep 13 > 09:55:47 2015. > Dependencies resolved. > ===================================================================== > == > ========= > Package Arch Version > Repository > > > Size > ===================================================================== > == > ========= > Upgrading: > epson-inkjet-printer-escpr x86_64 1.5.0-1.1lsb3.2.fc22 > updates > 2.0 M > libxml2 i686 2.9.2-4.fc22 > updates > 684 k > libxml2 x86_64 2.9.2-4.fc22 > updates > 677 k > libxml2-devel x86_64 2.9.2-4.fc22 > updates > 1.1 M > libxml2-python x86_64 2.9.2-4.fc22 > updates > 248 k > mesa-dri-drivers i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 8.5 M > mesa-dri-drivers x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 8.2 M > mesa-filesystem i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 35 k > mesa-filesystem x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 35 k > mesa-libEGL i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 97 k > mesa-libEGL x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 96 k > mesa-libEGL-devel i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 40 k > mesa-libEGL-devel x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 40 k > mesa-libGL i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 213 k > mesa-libGL x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 191 k > mesa-libGL-devel x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 160 k > mesa-libGLES x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 41 k > mesa-libOSMesa i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 1.3 M > mesa-libOSMesa x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 1.2 M > mesa-libgbm i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 55 k > mesa-libgbm x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 55 k > mesa-libgbm-devel x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 28 k > mesa-libglapi i686 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 70 k > mesa-libglapi x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 52 k > mesa-libwayland-egl x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 37 k > mesa-libwayland-egl-devel x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 25 k > mesa-libxatracker x86_64 10.6.3-2.20150729.fc22 > updates > 1.2 M > > Transaction Summary > ===================================================================== > == > ========= > Upgrade 27 Packages > > Total download size: 26 M > Is this ok [y/N]: It looks like Gnome bug 739666 ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739666) describes the problem, and its been around since last November. However, nobody is working on it. Gnome Bugzilla seems to be missing the required actions . How do you get it confirmed and dramatically raised up in priority? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
