dnf and removing the running kernel

[Andre Robatino]

Bruno Wolff III <bruno <at> wolff.to> writes:

> It looks like I got burned by dnf removing the running kernel during update.
> Due to dracut / grubby issues only my oldest kernel was bootable. I didn't 
> notice that the old kernel had been removed until after the machine crashed 
> (I suspect because the kernel had removed, since that kernel had been 
> working just fine for months.)

Don't know if it's related, and it's not as serious, but
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062997 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079906 concern dnf always
removing the oldest version of kernel-devel, even if it corresponds to the
running kernel.