Re: Fixing out of date nodebug kernels

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On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 9:51 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/rawhide-kernel-nodebug/
>
> At time of writing the nodebug kernels have a lower NVR than the ones
> in Koji and Rawhide.  In fact, this is quite often the case.
>
> Now I understand why this happens, and I'm not complaining about that
> process.  But I wonder if we could solve this with a technological
> solution?  I think if you put:
>
>   priority=98
>
> into the .repo file, then it'll always prefer the nodebug kernels even
> if they have a lower NVR.  See "priority" here:
>
> https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html
>
> With no change:
>
> $ sudo dnf update kernel
> Last metadata expiration check: 4:18:46 ago on Thu 19 May 2022 11:30:26 BST.
> Dependencies resolved.
> ================================================================================
>  Package       Arch   Version              Repository                      Size
> ================================================================================
> Installing:
>  kernel        x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37 rawhide                        247 k
>  kernel-core   x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37 rawhide                         48 M
>  kernel-modules
>                x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37 rawhide                         56 M
> Removing:
>  kernel        x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc3.27.fc37 @fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug   0
>  kernel-core   x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc3.27.fc37 @fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug  91 M
>  kernel-modules
>                x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc3.27.fc37 @fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug  55 M
>
> With priority=98 added:
>
> $ sudo dnf update kernel
> Rawhide kernels built without debugging turned  9.7 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00
> Dependencies resolved.
> ================================================================================
>  Package       Arch   Version              Repository                      Size
> ================================================================================
> Installing:
>  kernel        x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37 fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug  247 k
>  kernel-core   x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37 fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug   48 M
>  kernel-modules
>                x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37 fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug   56 M
> Removing:
>  kernel        x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc3.27.fc37 @fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug   0
>  kernel-core   x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc3.27.fc37 @fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug  91 M
>  kernel-modules
>                x86_64 5.18.0-0.rc3.27.fc37 @fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug  55 M
>
> I think if someone installed the repository, they've likely made a
> choice that they don't want the debug kernels.  I know I have.

I can do this, I had been telling people to just exclude kernel from
rawhide, which works as well, but this is a bit easier for users to
manage.

Justin

> Rich.
>
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