Re: Issues with Google Chrome, PyCharm, Steam and other third-party repos in Fedora 29 prereleases

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 3:06 PM Till Hofmann <thofmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 10/25/18 4:02 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > It was discovered[1] a short while ago that, due to a packaging
> > mistake in the fedora-workstation-repos package, upgrades from Fedora
> > 28->Fedora 29 would replace the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files provided
> > from that package with their default configuration.
> >
> > What this meant in practice is that anyone who was using those
> > repositories in Fedora 28 would find them silently disabled in Fedora
> > 29. In particular, this would mean that they might not notice that
> > they were not receiving updates, particularly (in the case of Chrome)
> > security updates.
> >
> > This has been fixed for F29 Final, but if you have upgraded from
> > F28->F29 prior to today (such as at the Beta release), you should
> > check and verify that your expected repos are correctly enabled.
> >
>
> Is it possible that this also happened on F28? I haven't upgraded to F29
> yet, but surprisingly my google-chrome repo is disabled and I'm using
> Chrome 68.0.3440.84 from 2 months ago. I'm pretty sure I never disabled
> the repo manually.
>

If there was a post-release update to the fedora-workstation-repos
package in F28, it's entirely possible, yes. It would have had the
same issue.
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