What is broken with software update?

[John Mellor]

I'm not using yumes-dnf.  I'm having the problems with the GUI Gnome
software center application, whatever that is called.

On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 10:33 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> what graphical interface are you using? I NORMALLY use CLI & dnf
> update,
> but sometimes if I want to look for a package I use the graphical
> interface:
> $ yumex-dnf
> 
> I HATE using it. even if I have just done a $ dnf update, it takes
> FOREVER to refresh the Repository Metadata... FOREVER...
> 
> after a google search I see there is a bugzilla bug for this issue..
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220776
> 
> 
> 
>  09/13/2015 10:07 AM, 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 at 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]: 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
> 
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