I wanted to try out the new 6.2 kernel on Kinoite so I followed the testing guide, but I’m getting stuck at the overriding part with this being the issue
nothing provides kernel-modules-core-uname-r
full output:
$ rpm-ostree override replace kernel-*.rpm
Inactive base replacements:
kernel-debug-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-core-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-devel-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-devel-matched-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-modules-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-modules-core-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-modules-extra-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-modules-internal-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-debug-uki-virt-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-devel-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-devel-matched-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-modules-core-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-modules-internal-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
kernel-uki-virt-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
Checking out tree dcedf51... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora-cisco-openh264 fedora-modular updates-modular updates fedora updates-archive
Updating metadata for 'fedora-cisco-openh264'... done
Updating metadata for 'fedora-modular'... done
Updating metadata for 'updates-modular'... done
Updating metadata for 'updates'... done
Updating metadata for 'fedora'... done
Updating metadata for 'updates-archive'... done
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264'; generated: 2022-10-06T11:01:40Z solvables: 4
rpm-md repo 'fedora-modular'; generated: 2022-11-05T07:58:03Z solvables: 1454
rpm-md repo 'updates-modular'; generated: 2023-02-22T11:28:37Z solvables: 1464
rpm-md repo 'updates'; generated: 2023-03-04T02:10:11Z solvables: 26117
rpm-md repo 'fedora'; generated: 2022-11-05T08:04:38Z solvables: 66822
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive'; generated: 2023-03-04T02:49:50Z solvables: 28305
Resolving dependencies... done
error: Could not depsolve transaction; 4 problems detected:
Problem 1: conflicting requests
- nothing provides kernel-modules-core-uname-r = 6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64 needed by kernel-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
Problem 2: conflicting requests
- nothing provides kernel-modules-core-uname-r = 6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64 needed by kernel-core-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
Problem 3: conflicting requests
- nothing provides kernel-modules-core-uname-r = 6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64 needed by kernel-modules-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
Problem 4: conflicting requests
- nothing provides kernel-modules-core-uname-r = 6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64 needed by kernel-modules-extra-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
This is the current status of my system:
$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/37/x86_64/kinoite
Version: 37.20230304.0 (2023-03-04T00:50:24Z)
BaseCommit: dcedf518b926207798c6df3b7d0764bc3ec238edd6be6b9f22bccc21be24448d
GPGSignature: Valid signature by ACB5EE4E831C74BB7C168D27F55AD3FB5323552A
LayeredPackages: intel-compute-runtime koji mozilla-openh264 oneapi-level-zero virt-install virt-manager virt-viewer
fedora:fedora/37/x86_64/kinoite
Version: 37.20230304.0 (2023-03-04T00:50:24Z)
BaseCommit: dcedf518b926207798c6df3b7d0764bc3ec238edd6be6b9f22bccc21be24448d
GPGSignature: Valid signature by ACB5EE4E831C74BB7C168D27F55AD3FB5323552A
LayeredPackages: intel-compute-runtime koji mozilla-openh264 virt-install virt-manager virt-viewer
And probably rpm-ostree override replace is unable to handle dependencies or it is unable to override something that is not installed.
Probably we need an ostree expert
The modules found in the kernel-core packages has been split out in a separate package according to this change-log entry.
* Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.2.0-0.rc4.7287904c8771.33]
- modules-core: use %%posttrans (Gerd Hoffmann)
- split sub-rpm kernel-modules-core from kernel-core (Gerd Hoffmann)
- Turn off CONFIG_MTK_T7XX for S390x (Justin M. Forbes)
- CI: add variable for variant handling (Veronika Kabatova)
- Linux v6.2.0-0.rc4.7287904c8771
I believe if you run rpm-ostree override replace giving it the Koji link containing all the kernel RPMs plus --install kernel-modules-core, it will likely pick the latter from Koji as well.
You will need to install kernel-modules-core-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64.rpm and upgrade the other kernel packages. As you are not installing from the repository, dnf can’t find the missing package.
No, no, you didn’t need to download each one manually, you can pass the Koji link to the rpm-ostree command. And it will replace only the ones that are on you system, like so:
Ah thanks, that downloaded the packages to be overridden correctly, but it gives an error at the end, it can’t retrieve the kernel-modules-core package this way
I had already tried that, it gives the same problem:
error: Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides kernel-uname-r = 6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64 needed by kernel-modules-core-6.2.2-300.fc37.x86_64
It seems I’m in a stalling situation, to install kernel-modules-core-6.2.2-300 I need kernel-uname-rof version 6.2.2-300 but that is provided by kernel-core-6.2.2-300and if I were to ovveride the kernel-core package I would need kernel-modules-core-uname-r at version 6.2.2-300 that is privided by kernel-modules-core-6.2.2-300 naturally
No need to retry. I can confirm that using kernel-*, between the RPMs contained in the download directory, only the already installed packages are taken into account.
