DNF: Retainining old Kernels

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 30 Nov 2015 at 11:17, Dave Cross wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:17:41 +0000
Subject:        	Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels
From:           	Dave Cross <davorg at gmail.com>
To:             	Community support for Fedora users 
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> [ 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.
> 

Think you mean yumex-dnf  at least with fc22.



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