Make the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL update service the fastest

Posted on Sun 06 April 2014 in CentOS • Tagged with Fedora, MQTT, yum

Since I played with some publish and subscribe protocols in the last months, I came to an idea to speed up the notification and delivery of software updates over the existing mechanism while reducing, or better optimizing, the needed resources.

Here a graphic to show what I try to implement …


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Latest kernel did not appear to be installed correctly in Fedora 20

Posted on Fri 31 January 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with kernel, security update, yum

Due to a known bug in Fedora 20 with some selinux updates I recognized a connected problem on my machine. While updating some packages I found this message:

Security: kernel-3.12.8-300.fc20.x86_64 is an installed security update
Security: kernel-3.12.7-300.fc20.x86_64 is the currently running version …

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Remove the last installed packages

Posted on Sat 23 February 2013 in Linux • Tagged with Fedora, yum

While I planed to install Skype on my 64bit Fedora machine I had to install a lot of i686 packages which I want to delete after I came to the conclusion Skype is not worth to be installed if they are not able to build a 64bit package.

To remove …


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