DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What about some kind of virtual provides defined in repos/rpm/somewhere that
>> > would automatically grab the kernel-devel package associated with the exact
>> > kernel that is running at the time yum/dnf is installing a program that
>> > depends on it? That would allow for things like DKMS to function properly,
>> > since they'll have what they need to build kernel modules. Going forward,
>> > kernel upgrades will also drag in the appropriate kernel-devel packages to
>> > match, keeping things sane.
>>
>> That would help DKMS at the cost of breaking rpmfusion, koji, or any
>> other scenario where you want to build a kernel module for a kernel
>> that isn't running.  The kernel-devel package is meant to be flexible
>> enough so that you can install it without having anything close to the
>> same kernel version actually running.
>
> I don’t think this would break the model: there would be no changes to packaging kernel-devel, you would still be able to install kernel-devel-$whateverversion, but a magic (dnf install ^kernel-devel-current) or “Requires: ^kernel-devel-current” would refer to a specific one.

I'm not understanding what you're suggesting here.

josh