Re: Older kernel headers

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On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 15:27 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> I try to manage kernels so that I always have the last public release 
> as
> well as the most up to date RC and the previous one. On laptops I 
> just run
> the latest RC as ot always seems to work (except occasionally). For 
> my
> workstation though I need the NVIDIA driver which almost never 
> compiles
> with the latest RC kernel (*). So I generally run the last public 
> release
> kernel on my workstation s as to be able to compile the NVIDIA 
> driver. Not
> usually a problem since kernel updates do not remove kernels, I do 
> that
> manually. However a recent removal of something has led to the 4.1.0 
> kernel
> header file package being removed, and, of course, it is no longer
> available in the Rawhide repository.
> 
> What is the officially correct way of getting back older kernel 
> header
> packages? 

Grab it from Koji, if it hasn't been garbage-collected. The rules on
garbage collection I'm not 100% sure of, but I think packages which
made the repos live much longer.

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