Re: kernel packaging split up landing in Rawhide

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On 04/29/2014 05:41 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
Hi All,

As part of the F21 "Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud" Feature[1],
I've committed and pushed the kernel packaging split up into
kernel-core and kernel-drivers subpackages.  For those of you running
rawhide, this really shouldn't be a major impact at all.  When you do
a yum update, you will see "kernel", "kernel-core", and
"kernel-drivers" packages being installed.  The end result should be
in line with today's rawhide kernels.

Note: Unless you're using a typical VM or Cloud image, don't uninstall
the kernel or kernel-drivers packages.  The machine may boot with just
kernel-core, but it will lack drivers for a significant portion of
bare-metal hardware without kernel-drivers installed.

Despite best efforts in testing, it's always possible a bug or two
snuck through.  In the event that you do have an issue with this,
please file a bug against the kernel package.

josh

[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modular_Kernel_Packaging_for_Cloud
I think you need a little work on this. Ok, to update (install) a new kernel you execute:
        yum  update  kernel
that same as it was previously.

BUT, if you want to remove that same kernel, for example doing:
        yum  remove  kernel-3.15.0-0.rc3.git5.3.fc21
will only remove the kernel package and not kernel-core and kernel-modules. Instead, you need to execute
        yum  remove kernel-core-3.15.0-0.rc3.git5.3.fc21
to get kernel, kernel-core, and kernel-modules removed.


I believe that for regular (non cloud usage) we should just need to deal with the kernel package in both update and remove situations.

Gene
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