What is broken with software update?

[Gordon Messmer]

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.