another dnf problem

[Igor Gnatenko]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed kernel* from updates-testing.  Now I want to go back to distro-sync.
> Let's try it:
> sudo dnf distro-sync kernel*
> Error: problem with installed package kernel-3.17.7-300.local.fc21.x86_64.
> problem with installed package kernel-core-3.17.7-300.local.fc21.x86_64.
> problem with installed package kernel-doc-3.17.4-200.fc20.noarch.
> problem with installed package kernel-modules-3.17.7-300.local.fc21.x86_64.
> problem with installed package kernel-modules-extra-3.17.7-300.local.fc21.x86_64
>
> that didn't work, and not very informative.  How about?
>
> [nbecker at nbecker1 ~]$ sudo dnf downgrade kernel*
> Error: conflicting requests
>
> Another loser.
>
> OK, yum?
> sudo yum distro-sync kernel*
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ================================================================================
>  Package                                Arch   Version          Repository
>                                                                            Size
> ================================================================================
> Installing:
>  kernel-devel                           x86_64 3.17.8-300.fc21  updates   9.1 M
> Removing:
>  kernel                                 x86_64 3.18.3-201.fc21  installed 0.0
>  kernel-core                            x86_64 3.18.3-201.fc21  installed  41 M
>  kernel-devel                           x86_64 3.18.3-201.fc21  installed  34 M
>  kernel-modules                         x86_64 3.18.3-201.fc21  installed  17 M
>  kernel-modules-extra                   x86_64 3.18.3-201.fc21  installed 2.1 M
> Downgrading:
>  kernel-headers                         x86_64 3.17.8-300.fc21  updates   947 k
>  kernel-tools                           x86_64 3.17.8-300.fc21  updates   126 k
>  kernel-tools-libs                      x86_64 3.17.8-300.fc21  updates    50 k
>  kernel-tools-libs-devel                x86_64 3.17.8-300.fc21  updates    47 k
> Removing for dependencies:
>  kmod-VirtualBox-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64 x86_64 4.3.20-2.fc21    @/kmod-
> VirtualBox-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64-4.3.20-2.fc21.x86_64
>                                                                           1.0 M
>  kmod-nvidia-304xx-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64
>                                         x86_64 304.125-1.fc21.1 @/kmod-
> nvidia-304xx-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64-304.125-1.fc21.1.x86_64
>                                                                            15 M
> Total                                              1.7 MB/s |  10 MB  00:06
>
> OK, that sounds about right.  Let's try it:
>
> Running transaction check
> Running transaction test
>
>
> Transaction check error:
>   package kernel-tools-libs-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-
> tools-libs-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64) is already installed
>   package kernel-tools-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-
> tools-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64) is already installed
>   package kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64 (which is newer than
> kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64) is already installed
>   package kernel-headers-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-
> headers-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64) is already installed
>   package kernel-devel-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-
> devel-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64) is already installed
>
> Error Summary
> -------------
>
> OK, so maybe yum doesn't work either.
I think this is yum bug, but DNF would print more better message ;)


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-Igor Gnatenko