Re: dnf --refresh upgrade vs. CVE-2015-7547 updates.

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On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 01:06 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 2016-02-16 16:41:27 the glibc rawhide build to fix CVE-2015-7547[1] completed:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=736361
> 
> On 2016-02-17 the rawhide repodiff email showed the build:
> ~~~
> glibc-2.22.90-36.fc24 
> --------------------- 
> * Tue Feb 16 2016 CArlos O'Donell <carlos(a)redhat.com&gt; 
> - 2.22.90-36 - Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow (#1308943).
> ~~~
> 
> My rawhide boxes didn't show the update because dnf was caching
> the metadata updates. I had to use `--refresh` to force a refresh,
> after which everything worked just fine.
> 
> Is this an artifact of Rawhide?
> 
> Is this documented anywhere?

It's normal dnf behaviour. It's been explained several times on mailing
lists and is probably mentioned in the man page.
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