DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package

[Dan Book]

This has also been a problem for several releases with the akmods from
rpmfusion. I think the more "correct" solution (read to the end) would be
to somehow prioritize the kernel-devel package (possibly multiple) that
matches the installed kernel(s). kernel-debug-devel is never the "correct"
choice when only standard kernels are installed, but it gets installed
because of alphabetical order; this ordering is one way to get something
useful installed instead. This of course is pie-in-the-sky and doesn't
match with how dependencies can currently be declared and resolved, AFAIK.
-Dan

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
wrote:

> On 09.06.2015 21:04, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > I've noticed that when dkms is installed, it's not grabbing the right
> > kernel-devel package as a dependency.
>
> Because that's not possible with ordinary dependencies (might be
> possible with soft dependencies [Suggests, Enhances etc]) unless we
> change something in the kernel packaging (see below).
>
> > Instead, it grabs
> > kernel-debug-devel. This occurs on Fedora 21 and 22, and I'm not sure
> > why.
>
> Because all kernel*devel package provide kernel-devel iirc.
>
> > Anyone have any idea why this is happening and a way to work around it?
>
> Create something like a meta-package "kernel-devel-all" that depends on
> all available kernel-devel packages (kernel-devel, kernel-PAE-devel,
> kernel-debug-devel, ...) for the arch in question; then add "Requires:
> kernel-devel-all" to the akmods and dkms packages. That's messy and
> creates overhead for users, but that's afaics the only way it will work
> for everyone; otherwise you'll always run into situations where a
> kernel-devel package for one kernel variant gets installed while you are
> running different variant. Example: You get kernel-devel via some
> dependency in akmods or dkms; but you are running kernel-PAE on your
> i686 machine, so building modules with akmods or dkms will fail, as
> that's requires kernel-PAE-devel.
>
> HTH; CU, knurd
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