[elrepo] Announcement: EL5/EL6 Updated NVIDIA drivers [version 270.41.03]

[Phil Perry]

On 18/04/11 12:41, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 01:37 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 18/04/11 10:54, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> it seems doesn't feed the mirrors (even not the main site).
>>>
>>> On 04/16/2011 10:28 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>>> Announcing the release of updated kmod-nvidia packages in the EL5 and
>>>> EL6 elrepo testing repositories.
>>>>
>>
>> They are in the *testing* repositories.
>>
>> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update kmod-nvidia
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/
>> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/
>>
>> We always put the first release in a new series of nvidia drivers (this
>> being the first release of the 270.xx series) into the elrepo-testing
>> repository as they do sometimes have a tendency to be slightly buggy and
>> this is Enterprise Linux. We kind of consider these like a "point zero"
>> release if you will :-)
>>
>> The next release (hopefully fixing any major bugs that might have
>> slipped into the first release) will automatically go to the main elrepo
>> repository.
>
> ohh sorry, we just mirror the rsync server and on that one it's still
> missing.

No worries. I not sure how often those mirrors sync against us.

> it'd be useful if the main site rsync enabled:-)...
>

Yes, unfortunately our current hosting provider doesn't offer rsync 
capabilities on that package. We are planning to put the repos onto 
another server with rsync asap but still don't know when that might happen.

We know the main site struggles at times and is slow as it currently 
hosts the main repos, the website/wiki and the bug tracker. The mirrors 
have helped lessened the load somewhat and we hope moving the repos off 
the main server leaving only the website/wiki and the bug tracker will 
make those services more responsive.

It might be worth a separate thread on elrepo-devel to discuss these 
issues and how best to proceed.