DNF: Retainining old Kernels

[Dave Cross]

On 30 November 2015 at 11:24, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> 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.

No this is definitely dnf. I don't have any yumex packages installed.
Oh, and I'm using Fedora 23.

How can I convince you that I know my set-up better than you do? :-)

Dave...

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