Re: What is broken with software update?

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On 09/13/2015 07:07 AM, John Mellor wrote:
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.

Nothing is clearly broken.

yum/dnf repositories are not synchronized. No mechanism nor mandate exists for keeping them in sync. This has been discussed to death on this list, but no example has been provided that can't be explained simply as "dnf checked a repository with older data and then, later, checked a different repository with data that is more up to date."

That's the way distributed mirror systems work, and it's nothing to worry about. You *will* get updates, when the mirrors pull data.

If you're concerned about getting updates immediately, don't rely on dnf at all. Subscribe to the RSS feed:
http://fedoraplanet.org/infofeed/

There's a perfectly good, centralized source of information about updates available to everyone.
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