Here I am after spending about 30 minutes getting to the bottom of this. Perhaps mentioning it in the Fedora Docs would be a good idea. Also maybe create the kernel-headers-$(uname -r) package that just creates links to the real folder? This is an unnecessary confusion.

Kernel headers update policy

vekruse (Villy Kruse) November 1, 2024, 11:12am 3

The kernel-headers is used for compiling user level programs. For building kernel modules the headers provided by kernel-devel should be used instead.

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My almost fresh install has mismatched kernel versions

Header version to match kernel version

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