On 10/04/15 17:45, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 10/05/2015 05:21 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 08:06:42AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> I'm assuming this is DNF and not some other change...
>>>
>>> Yum allowed multiple kernel-devel packages to be installed, dnf does not,
>>> which prevents you from building kernel modules for other kernel releases.
>>>
>>> Was there a good reason for this change in behavior?
>> This is not true.
>>
>>   $ rpm -q kernel-devel | sort
>>   kernel-devel-4.0.4-202.fc21.x86_64
>>   kernel-devel-4.1.5-200.fc22.x86_64
>>   kernel-devel-4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64
>>   kernel-devel-4.1.6-201.fc22.x86_64
>>   kernel-devel-4.1.7-200.fc22.x86_64
>>   kernel-devel-4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64
>>
>> Maybe you are confusing with kernel-headers?  If that is the case, it
>> has been like that for ages.  And usually that should not be a problem,
>> specially between minor releases (as is the case for a given Fedora
>> release).
>>
> 
> I think you had not read the entire thread before you responded.  We later 
> discovered him to be on F21 and indeed on my F21 VM I confirmed....
> 
> [root@f21 dnf]# rpm -q kernel
> kernel-4.0.7-200.fc21.x86_64
> kernel-4.1.6-100.fc21.x86_64
> kernel-4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64
> 
> [root@f21 dnf]# rpm -q kernel-devel
> kernel-devel-4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64
> 
> [root@f21 dnf]# uname -r
> 4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64

Not my experience, I have:

# rpm -q kernel
kernel-4.1.4-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-4.1.5-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-4.1.6-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-4.1.8-100.fc21.x86_64
# rpm -q kernel-devel
kernel-devel-4.1.4-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.5-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.6-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.8-100.fc21.x86_64

What I do not use is dnf, I'm still using yum....  Yet another instance
of dnf not working the same as yum.

> F22, on the other hand, is "better"
> 
> 

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