On 9/12/17 10:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:35:08AM -0400, Ben Williams wrote: >> case A) Students are using Fedora on windows in a VM (Vbox in this >> case) for a class. they are required for said class to install the >> guest additions. they are constantly running into errors that the >> guest addidions will not build (there install does not have >> kernel-devel install. They used the F26 release so now have the >> release kernel and so they install sudo dnf install kernel-devel and >> still have issues (kernel and kernel-devel versions do not match). > > Isn't the solution here for the guest addons to require kernel-devel? That was my thought as well, though the addons may be circumventing the whole rpm/dnf mechanism for all I know. >> Case B) third party video or wireless driver same issue no >> kernel-devel, no wireless no internet == fix by sneakernet > > Also same? Well, if you need it for wireless, and you only have wireless, requiring it doesn't help much if you can't retrieve it over your non-functioning network card. Still, I'm not sure that's a problem for Fedora to solve? OTOH installing kernel-devel by default isn't too heavyweight, I think. -Eric _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
