On 01/01/2014 11:13 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
On 12/20/2013 12:33 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote:
On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora
users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that
aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Please check out the blog post
for more information:
A question, I found the following on
<http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html>
"dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel
In Yum, the running kernel is spared. There is no reason to keep this in
DNF, the user can always specify concrete versions on the command line,
e.g.:
dnf erase kernel-3.9.4"
So if I issue 'dnf erase kernel' all kernels will be removed, and I have
no kernel anymore?
Apparently, this is what dnf does:
# dnf remove kernel
Resolving dependencies
--> Starting dependency resolution
--> Finding unneeded leftover dependencies
...
---> Package kernel.x86_64 3.11.10-301.fc20 will be erased
---> Package kernel.x86_64 3.12.5-302.fc20 will be erased
---> Package kmod-nvidia.x86_64 1:331.20-10.fc20.1 will be erased
---> Package kmod-nvidia-3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64.x86_64 1:331.20-10.fc20
will be erased
---> Package kmod-nvidia-3.12.5-302.fc20.x86_64.x86_64
1:331.20-10.fc20.1 will be erased
...
> Is that really a good thing?
IMO, this behavior is inacceptable and disqualifies dnf from being made
distribution-wide default.
Should we not spare the
running kernel?
If you look closer, yum doesn't only spare the running kernel, but
allows a configurable number of multiple versions of some packages
(notably: kernels and kernel-modules).
The rationale for this is keeping fallback-kernels on the system in case
a kernel update does not boot or is mal-functioning.
Or is there some rationale behind this that I am missing?
I think the dnf developers' are missing an important piece of yum history.
Ralf
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