On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Anderson, Charles R wrote:
Why is dnf trying to install an older kernel than I already have?
> rpm -q kernel
kernel-5.3.11-300.fc31.x86_64
kernel-5.3.12-300.fc31.x86_64
kernel-5.4.5-300.fc31.x86_64
> uname -r
5.4.5-300.fc31.x86_64
I have seen this before. I assume it is trying to update one of your older
kernels. There may be some cases when that is reasonable, eg. if you have
installed a later kernel for testing but not everything works on it, so
you are still booting with older kernels some of the time.
Michael Young