dnf and handling kernel-devel updates correctly

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Andre Robatino
> <robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> In order for dnf to be able to handle kernel-devel updates correctly (having
>> multiple versions of kernel-devel installed, one for each installed kernel),
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079906 (against the kernel)
>> must be fixed, but there is no response to status inquiries in the bug. Does
>> anyone know what the status of this is? I was under the impression that this
>> was a simple fix, so it's odd that nothing has happened for almost a year.
>
> It's been a low priority lost in the sea of other bugs.  Particularly
> since the current default package manager works just fine with no
> kernel changes.
>
> I realize DNF is aiming to be the default for F22 so I'll try and get
> to this next week.

Small addendum: if a provenpackager wants to get to this sooner, we'd
be happy for the help.  Just make sure to stick around for any fallout
too :).

josh