kernel-debug-devel?

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/01/15 08:53, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:39:08 -0700
> jd1008 wrote:
>
>> After it installs, what is the output of
>> rpm -qv --whatrequires kernel-debug-deve
> I'm got a couple of them and they both say nothing
> requires them:
>
> [root at zooty /]# rpm -q -a | fgrep kernel-debug
> kernel-debug-devel-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64
> kernel-debug-devel-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64
> [root at zooty /]# rpm -qv --whatrequires kernel-debug-devel-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64
> no package requires kernel-debug-devel-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64
> [root at zooty /]# rpm -qv --whatrequires kernel-debug-devel-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64
> no package requires kernel-debug-devel-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64
>
> Yet, if I erase it, it comes back on the next update.
>
> It certainly looks like it provides headers for building
> modules for debug kernels, but I have no debug kernels
> installed so it becomes very mysterious. Perhaps another
> mysterious side effect from splitting kernel into
> kernel-core and modules separately?

Do you have dkms installed? 

I have F21 in a Vbox VM and, if memory serves me, it was pulled in when I installed dkms to have the Vbox video modules rebuilt when a new kernel was installed.  As a matter of fact, I see this in my yum.log....

Jan 22 09:21:58 Installed: kernel-debug-devel-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64
Jan 22 09:21:59 Installed: dkms-2.2.0.3-28.git.7c3e7c5.fc21.noarch

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