Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/13/2014 08:06 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:

On 06/12/2014 10:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 15:58 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 06/11/2014 03:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

I have three kernels installed (current, previous and previous
previous :-) which I think is the default with yum though it can be
changed by editing installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf. If smartpm says
that kernels can't coexist it's clearly wrong.

So do I.  I also have a kmod-nvidia installed for each of them.

Ditto.

Thanks for the responses Joe and Patrick, I've checked the installonly_limit in yum.conf and it is set to 3, which now confuses me because I've never had more than one kernel installed even when doing updates with yum. It has been this way for me since Fedora 18 which is when I first started using Fedora. I have 2 installed at the moment because the last update I did installed a new kernel and I did that update with DNF to try it out for the first time.
I've run an installed package check with smartpm and it is telling me the 2 kernel and kernel-dev packages can't coexist so I'll be raising a bug report on that with its developers.

I've fixed the issue with smartpm reporting that kernels can't coexist by telling it to allow multiple versions. I'm confused as to why it complained about multiple kernels but not multiple kmod.nvidia packages, and why exactly the same smartpm application run under Mandriva was quite happy to allow multiple kernels without any configuration but under Fedora its not. That is something that probably can't be resolved here and is off topic for this thread, so I apologize for that.

regards,
Steve

Looking at the way DNF did its installs it doesn't seem to be any different to yum other than it is obvious that DNF does parallel downloads. DNF looks to have also reused some of the YUM code base as when you issue the command     dnf --help it displays the following output:

--version             show Yum version and exit

regards,
Steve

poc

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