DNF: Retainining old Kernels

[Dave Cross]

[ email re-ordered to make more sense ]

On 30 November 2015 at 09:28, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2015-11-30 10:18 GMT+01:00 Dave Cross <davorg at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Currently I have problem with newer kernel RPMs on my Dell Dimension.
>> There's a bug in Bugzilla about this.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231508
>>
>> I have three kernel RPMs installed.
>>
>> kernel-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64
>> kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23.x86_64
>> kernel-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64
>>
>> Over the weekend I discovered that the problem goes away if I use the
>> oldest of my kernel installations (4.2.5-300).
>>
>> I'm worried that the next time I get a kernel update, my working RPM
>> will be removed and (potentially) replaced with another non-working
>> one.
>>
>> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and
>> new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still
>> like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my
>> problem is fixed.
>
> sure that you refer to dnf and not to dnf-yumex??

Yes. I'm definitely referring to dnf. I've never heard of dnf-yumex.

Dave...

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