kernel-headers downgrade failure

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Aug 3 20:47:45 UTC 2012



Am 03.08.2012 22:41, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 08/03/2012 01:09 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> On 3 August 2012 19:14, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
>>> On 08/03/2012 03:26 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That said, maybe the Fedora repos can keep more than one (say 2-3)
>>>> versions of the kernel in case some users need to downgrade and don't
>>>> have it in their cache?
>>>
>>>
>>> By default, yum keeps the most recent 3 kernels installed.  How often do you
>>> think users need to downgrade past that?
>>>
>>
>> But not the kernel headers, or indeed any other package.
>>
> 
> I was under the impression that they were kept until the kernel they applied to was removed

how comes that you do not look what yum does?

kernel AND kernel-devel are installed in multiple version
kernel-headers are UPDATED only, this is not new

[root at buildserver:~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-headers-3.4.7-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.4.4-4.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.4.7-1.fc16.x86_64


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