DNF: Only one kernel-devel package allowed?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:45:09AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 10/05/2015 05:21 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 08:06:42AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> >> I'm assuming this is DNF and not some other change...
> >>
> >> Yum allowed multiple kernel-devel packages to be installed, dnf does not,
> >> which prevents you from building kernel modules for other kernel releases.
> >>
> >> Was there a good reason for this change in behavior?
> > This is not true.
> >
> >   $ rpm -q kernel-devel | sort
> >   kernel-devel-4.0.4-202.fc21.x86_64
> >   kernel-devel-4.1.5-200.fc22.x86_64
> >   kernel-devel-4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64
> >   kernel-devel-4.1.6-201.fc22.x86_64
> >   kernel-devel-4.1.7-200.fc22.x86_64
> >   kernel-devel-4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64
> >
> > Maybe you are confusing with kernel-headers?  If that is the case, it
> > has been like that for ages.  And usually that should not be a problem,
> > specially between minor releases (as is the case for a given Fedora
> > release).
> >
> 
> I think you had not read the entire thread before you responded.  We later discovered him to be on F21 and indeed on my F21 VM I confirmed....

Indeed!  I noticed after I had responded.  I guess a backport bug report
is in order against dnf.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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