[elrepo] RHEL8 kernels immediately overwritten

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:33 AM Joseph Christopher Sible
<jcsible at cert.org> wrote:
>
> I'm using kernel-ml on both RHEL7 and RHEL8 systems. On my RHEL7
> systems, it works the way I want it to, which is also how the stock
> kernels on both RHEL versions work: up to three of the kernel-ml
> kernels exist at a time, and when yum updates them, it installs a new
> kernel-ml package, and if there would be more than three, it also
> uninstalls the oldest that isn't currently running.
>
> However, on my RHEL8 systems, kernel-ml behaves like any other package:
> there's only one of it at a time, and when yum updates it, the old one
> is immediately overwritten, even if it's the running kernel. In
> particular, this is a problem because once I install a kernel-ml
> update, I can't load any new kernel modules until I reboot (since all
> of the modules for my running kernel have been deleted). Is there a way
> to get the other behavior back on RHEL8?
>
> Joseph C. Sible

We are aware of the issue and are working on it. There is a
workaround. In the /etc/dnf/dnf.conf file, add a line:

installonlypkgs=kernel-ml kernel-ml-core kernel-ml-modules

then kernel-ml will be installed, not updated.

Akemi