yum list updates gives different results user vs root

[Brian Mury]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:22 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> I'm getting different results from "yum list updates" when I do it as
> user vs root:
> 
> as user:
>  * fedora: mirror.stanford.edu
>  * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.tummy.com
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.tummy.com
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.tummy.com
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.tummy.com
>  * updates: mirror.stanford.edu

> as root:
>  * fedora: fedora.mirrors.pair.com
>  * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * updates: fedora.mirrors.pair.com

> Can someone explain why is this happening?

It has nothing to do with the user; yum simply used different mirrors
the two times that you ran it. It can take a bit of time for mirrors to
sync. Try a different mirror, or simply wait a bit and the mirror will
sync.