Re: dnf pulling in kernel-debug for L2TP

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was trying to figure out why I had kernel-debug* packages installed,
> and tracked it to xl2tpd wanting "kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko)".  That is provided
> by kernel-debug-modules-extra and kernel-modules-extra; dnf choose to
> install the -debug version (which then pulls in the debug kernel as
> well).
>
> I looked in bugzilla, and there are already two bugs (at least) for
> this:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192189
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284228
>
> The first one is almost 2 years old!  That means that anybody that wants
> L2TP support (which is in some default package sets I believe) gets
> unneeded debug kernels.  Surely something can be done to fix this?
>
> It seems that the root of the problem is that dnf resolves dependencies
> differently from yum and refuses to change to the old well-known
> behavior.

Hi,
The root issue is that these two packages provides the same feature
and no other preference is specified. I've reassigned it to xl2tpd to
give DNF hint which package should be preferred.


Honza
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