On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 13:22 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Adam Williamson
> <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> 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 ?

> 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.
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