ALSA-2025:8696 refers to a package that's not in the repositories

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Based on ALSA-2025:8696 ( ALSA-2025:8696 ), Qualys is asking me to install perl-FCGI-0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4013+e6a7e623.x86_64.rpm. I currently have perl-FCGI-0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4012+cd64a238.x86_64, and the required version doesn’t seem to be available in the appstream repository. Is the 4013 version available somewhere?

This is a machine running Alma 8.10.

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4013 and 4014 are in AppStream.

Name             : perl-FCGI
Stream           : 0.78 [d]
Version          : 8100020250612083908
Context          : 0ccef39c
Architecture     : x86_64
Profiles         : common [d]
Default profiles : common
Repo             : appstream
Summary          : FastCGI Perl bindings
Description      : This allows you to write a FastCGI client in the Perl language.
Requires         : perl:[5.30]
                 : platform:[el8]
Artifacts        : perl-FCGI-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4013+e6a7e623.src
                 : perl-FCGI-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4013+e6a7e623.x86_64
                 : perl-FCGI-debuginfo-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4013+e6a7e623.x86_64
                 : perl-FCGI-debugsource-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4013+e6a7e623.x86_64

Name             : perl-FCGI
Stream           : 0.78 [d]
Version          : 8100020250612083908
Context          : dbc5bc9a
Architecture     : x86_64
Profiles         : common [d]
Default profiles : common
Repo             : appstream
Summary          : FastCGI Perl bindings
Description      : This allows you to write a FastCGI client in the Perl language.
Requires         : perl:[5.32]
                 : platform:[el8]
Artifacts        : perl-FCGI-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4014+e500fb2f.src
                 : perl-FCGI-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4014+e500fb2f.x86_64
                 : perl-FCGI-debuginfo-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4014+e500fb2f.x86_64
                 : perl-FCGI-debugsource-1:0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4014+e500fb2f.x86_64

# dnf --releasever=8 --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=appstream info perl-FCGI --setopt=*.module_hotfixes=1

Available Packages
Name         : perl-FCGI
Epoch        : 1
Version      : 0.78
Release      : 12.module_el8.10.0+4014+e500fb2f
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 48 k
Source       : perl-FCGI-0.78-12.module_el8.10.0+4014+e500fb2f.src.rpm
Repository   : appstream
Summary      : FastCGI Perl bindings
URL          : https://metacpan.org/release/FCGI
License      : OML
Description  : FastCGI Perl bindings.

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Did you make any changes to the dnf configuration on the system that would prevent your system to update?

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Thanks. I wasn’t using --setopt=*.module_hotfixes=1. With that, I now see that there’s a conflict that I need to resolve. I had thought that module_hotfixes=1 was the default.

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module_hotfixes=1 is not the default and there shouldn’t be a reason to use in that manner. It is also not a fix as it overrides any fail-safes.

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