On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 10:40 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 07:01 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > There are widely reported zero-days related to chrome, and chrome is
> > > telling me "update" in the top right corner.  If I do update outside of
> > > dnf, will the next dnf update still be effective?
> 
> I've seen Chrome (when installed via the official rpm
> packaging from Google) report that it needs restarted to
> pick up an update that's been installed, but I've never seen
> it update itself on Linux.  (Not that I can't be wrong about
> that, of course.)
> 
> The google-chrome repo managed by Google is generally kept
> up to date.  Are you positive that you haven't installed an
> update to Chrome since the last time you restarted the app?
> 
> I know that several vulnerabilities discussed recently have
> already been patched and shipped to the google-chrome repo.
> The latest stable version on the Chrome release page is
> 86.0.4240.198, which is what's been in the google-chrome
> package repo since the middle of last week.
> 
> > AFAIK the built-in updater is not going to coordinate with the RPM
> > database, so I wouldn't do this myself. It may not even install to the
> > same location.
> > 
> > You can always try:
> > 
> > # dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update google-chrome
> > 
> > to see if there's a more recent version in the testing repo.
> 
> Since google-chrome is not in the Fedora repos, it won't be
> in updates or updates-testing. ;)

Oops, good point. Make that the Chrome repo(s) :-)

poc
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