On 07/22/2017 11:24 AM, stan wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:11:04 -0700
Sherman Grunewagen <sugarwa...@gmx.com> wrote:
Thanks, Stan. When I tried to remove kernel-headers-4.11.10-200,
dnf said it wanted to remove a lot of other packages. Of course I
said "no". If I downgrade the headers to 4.11.8, will it also need to
downgrade all those other packages? (I've never downgraded anything.)
Removing is a lot different than downgrading. As Ed said, there is
only one kernel-headers package on the system, so removing it wants to
remove anything which depends on it. Downgrading is not going to
remove the dependency, it is going to change the version of it. So, it
should ignore all those dependencies because they aren't going to be
affected. When I just tried the command on my system, dnf just wanted
to grab the lower version of the headers. I said 'no' to the question
of whether I wanted to continue, but I presume it would have just
downloaded the package and replaced the existing package.
You can try it easily. Just type the downgrade command, and if the
transaction wants to still remove all those dependent packages, answer
'no' to the continue question, and post your experience here.
Yes, I did some reading after trying Ed's suggestion and discovered
that 1) one needs to be in the directory with the downgrade rpm (if it's not
available in the Fedora repos, and 2) use "downgrade" not "erase as the dnf
directive. Thanks so much to both you and Ed for your help!
-Sherman
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