Re: Last released kernel

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On 03/01/2017 11:18 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:07 AM, Russel Winder <russel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I appreciate that Rawhide always has the latest kernel snapshot as the
>> one and only kernel and that it is up to users to manage their own
>> kernels. However I wonder if there should be a simple, standard way of
>> being able to install the last released kernel, perhaps a package last-
>> release-kernel or something.
>>
>> The problem for me is that the release kernel only ever seems to be in
>> Rawhide for one day, and if I miss updating on that day, I have missed
>> capturing that kernel – it just happened with 4.10 so I am stuck with
>> an rc8 rather than the release. (And 4.11 won't actually work for a few
>> rcs yet, same for every new kernel.)
> 
> In dnf.conf add an exclude for the kernel, and then just manually
> install them from koji. So you download kernel kernel-core and
> kernel-modules RPMs from koji, then you can do 'dnf install *rpm'
> while in the same directory that has the RPMs and it'll install them.
> 
> What you want to do isn't really possible right now I think. Fedora 24
> and 25 are still on 4.9 kernels, they haven't rebased to 4.10. So
> there is no repo with 4.10 in it, and in fact 4.10.1 has not been
> built yet.

Fedora 25 is indeed on the 4.9 kernels (latest release is 4.9.12-200).
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