Re: future of official optical media support in Fedora

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 13:22 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Adam Williamson
>> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 07:31 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> > > and even if it
>> > > did, that would likely be the equivalent of a netinstall, and
>> > > netinstalls are broken until someone does something about how kernel
>> > > package flavors are selected and installed.
>> >
>> > Sorry, what do you mean by this? And how is it different on DVDs?
>>
>> I mean this bug[1] that became a thing ever since we split up the
>> kernel into lots of subpackages. Anaconda/DNF will install the wrong
>> variant (like debug instead of regular) of any kernel subpackage
>> because they all provide (and rightfully so) the same name. It breaks
>> stuff as simple as having Wi-Fi in Fedora Workstation after
>> netinstall, or makes it so that you can't rely on the "kernel-devel"
>> requirement for dkms. It's a natural consequence of how our kernel
>> packaging works, and how yum and dnf cannot infer the correct default
>> flavor of kernel packages from the environment.
>
> Oh, right, that one. Isn't it basically the same as
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192189 ?
>

It is essentially the same core issue, yes. It can happen with Yum,
but for some reason, it happens less often.

>> I haven't installed from the DVD in a while, but last I recall,
>> something about DVD installs prevents this from happening. It may very
>> well occur now with DVD installs, too.
>
> The difference would just be in which of the kernel packages are
> present on the DVD for it to install, I suppose.

Most likely.


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