Sorry for the long silence. I will try to post more often from now on.
I playing around with dnf, which is the package manager that should replace yum in the future and had some very nice insight.
[root@mysystem ~]# date ; yum clean all Do 25. Sep 17:51:06 CEST 2014 Geladene Plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, langpacks, ps, refresh- : packagekit, remove-with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache, show-leaves, : versionlock Quellen werden aufgeräumt:adobe-linux-x86_64 fedora fedora-HandBrake : fedora-chromium-stable logstash-1.4 : mbooth-eclipse-luna rpmfusion-free : rpmfusion-free-updates rpmfusion-nonfree : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates updates Cleaning up everything [root@mysystem ~]# date ; yum update Do 25. Sep 17:51:13 CEST 2014 Geladene Plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, langpacks, ps, refresh- : packagekit, remove-with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache, show-leaves, : versionlock adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00 fedora/20/x86_64/metalink | 33 kB 00:00 fedora | 3.8 kB 00:00 fedora-HandBrake | 2.9 kB 00:00 fedora-chromium-stable | 3.4 kB 00:00 logstash-1.4 | 2.5 kB 00:00 mbooth-eclipse-luna | 3.0 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-free | 3.3 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.3 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-nonfree | 3.3 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 3.3 kB 00:00 updates/20/x86_64/metalink | 15 kB 00:00 updates | 4.9 kB 00:00 (1/8): fedora-HandBrake/20/x86_64/primary_db | 10 kB 00:00 (2/8): fedora/20/x86_64/group_gz | 394 kB 00:00 (3/8): mbooth-eclipse-luna/20/x86_64/primary_db | 148 kB 00:00 (4/8): updates/20/x86_64/group_gz | 395 kB 00:00 updates/20/x86_64/primary_db FAILED http://mirror.1000mbps.com/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/189bd24ec8b2062a45dbc5e01c213249a1f8be9a9f699195f832cc93b6394c0d-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Anderer Spiegelserver wird versucht. updates/20/x86_64/primary_db FAILED http://mirror2.hs-esslingen.de/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/189bd24ec8b2062a45dbc5e01c213249a1f8be9a9f699195f832cc93b6394c0d-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Anderer Spiegelserver wird versucht. (5/8): logstash-1.4/primary_db | 17 kB 00:00 (6/8): fedora-chromium-stable/20/x86_64/primary_db | 29 kB 00:00 (7/8): updates/20/x86_64/primary_db | 12 MB 00:04 (8/8): fedora/20/x86_64/primary_db | 18 MB 00:04 (1/11): rpmfusion-free-updates/20/x86_64/group_gz | 1.6 kB 00:00 (2/11): rpmfusion-free-updates/20/x86_64/primary_db | 348 kB 00:00 (3/11): rpmfusion-nonfree/20/x86_64/group_gz | 1.0 kB 00:00 (4/11): rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/20/x86_64/group_gz | 1.0 kB 00:00 (5/11): rpmfusion-nonfree/20/x86_64/primary_db | 137 kB 00:00 (6/11): rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/20/x86_64/primary_db | 107 kB 00:00 updates/20/x86_64/updateinfo FAILED http://mirror2.hs-esslingen.de/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/418dbd12af6795571f815b836aada093514abb1e7293fccfbed97c63ad70de16-updateinfo.xml.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Anderer Spiegelserver wird versucht. (7/11): rpmfusion-free/20/x86_64/group_gz | 1.6 kB 00:00 updates/20/x86_64/pkgtags FAILED http://mirror.1000mbps.com/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/3a810fcd709a53bec6270b989c4799367c19b85c0d35112cc0835ce7479e078b-pkgtags.sqlite.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Anderer Spiegelserver wird versucht. (8/11): rpmfusion-free/20/x86_64/primary_db | 445 kB 00:00 updates/20/x86_64/updateinfo FAILED http://mirror.1000mbps.com/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/418dbd12af6795571f815b836aada093514abb1e7293fccfbed97c63ad70de16-updateinfo.xml.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Anderer Spiegelserver wird versucht. updates/20/x86_64/pkgtags FAILED http://mirror2.hs-esslingen.de/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/3a810fcd709a53bec6270b989c4799367c19b85c0d35112cc0835ce7479e078b-pkgtags.sqlite.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Anderer Spiegelserver wird versucht. (9/11): adobe-linux-x86_64/primary | 1.2 kB 00:00 (10/11): updates/20/x86_64/updateinfo | 1.4 MB 00:00 (11/11): updates/20/x86_64/pkgtags | 1.2 MB 00:00 Determining fastest mirrors * fedora: be.mirror.eurid.eu * rpmfusion-free: download1.rpmfusion.org * rpmfusion-free-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org * rpmfusion-nonfree: download1.rpmfusion.org * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org * updates: fedora-mirror01.rbc.ru adobe-linux-x86_64 2/2 No packages marked for update
So, yum tells me no update available.
[root@mysystem ~]# date ; dnf clean all Do 25. Sep 17:51:06 CEST 2014 Quellen werden aufgeräumt:logstash-1.4 mbooth-eclipse-luna : rpmfusion-free-updates fedora-HandBrake : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates rpmfusion-free : adobe-linux-x86_64 fedora rpmfusion-nonfree : fedora-chromium-stable updates Alles wird aufgeräumt [root@mysystem ~]# date ; dnf update Do 25. Sep 17:51:13 CEST 2014 logstash repository for 1.4.x packages 251 kB/s | 364 kB 00:01 The eclipse-luna Software Collection for Fedo 6.9 MB/s | 388 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Free - Updates 6.2 MB/s | 389 kB 00:00 Open source multiplatform video transcoder 58 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Nonfree - Updates 3.1 MB/s | 106 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Free 7.1 MB/s | 487 kB 00:00 Adobe Systems Incorporated 3.1 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00 Fedora 20 - x86_64 3.1 MB/s | 36 MB 00:11 RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Nonfree 5.9 MB/s | 289 kB 00:00 Builds of the "stable" tag of the Chromium We 82 kB/s | 241 kB 00:02 Fedora 20 - x86_64 - Updates 10 MB/s | 26 MB 00:02 Abhängigkeiten sind aufgelöst. .............. Transaktionsübersicht ============================================================================== Installieren 2 Packages Aktualisieren 80 Packages Entfernen 4 Packages
and dnf tells me my updates are ready to install! Guest I should start using dnf from now on.
I will switch to dnf as soon as it gets yum-plugin-local support[1].
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991014
Besides, dnf seems to response more quickly than yum, and it can also enable some repositories like what apt-get does.
“and dnf tells me my updates are ready to install! Guest I should start using dnf from now on.” That a stupid reason 😉 See
http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/user_faq.html?highlight=faq#why-do-i-get-different-results-with-dnf-upgrade-vs-yum-update