another dnf problem

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 12:35:22 UTC 2015


On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:25:40 -0500, Neal Becker 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

Did you make sure that both dnf and yum work on exactly the same repo
metadata? dnf doesn't refresh it as often as yum does. You may need to
force it to do so.


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