[elrepo] Announcement: EL5, EL6 and EL7 Updated NVIDIA drivers [352.41]

[Pat Riehecky]

On 08/31/2015 10:29 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 31/08/15 14:17, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>> On 08/29/2015 10:51 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>> Announcing the release of updated NVIDIA 352.41 packages into the EL5,
>>> EL6 and EL7 elrepo repositories:
>>>
>>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>>>
>>> This release is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a
>>> range of releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any
>>> one specific build.
>>>
>>> You can update your system by:
>>>
>>> yum update kmod-nvidia
>>>
>>> Please reboot your system after applying this update.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> The ELRepo Team.
>>>
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>>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> This latest kmod does not appear to have the cuda fixes (see Aug 20
>> thread).
>>
>> Any chance for a kmod-nvidia-352.41-2.el6.elrepo with the cuda provides?
>>
>> $ rpm -qp --provides kmod-nvidia-352.41-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm |grep cuda
>>
>> As always, thanks for all the hard work!
>>
>> Pat
>>
> Hi Pat,
>
> I added the provides to the nvidia-x11-drv package (64-bit only):
>
> %ifarch x86_64
> # Provides for CUDA
> Provides:	cuda-driver = %{version}
> Provides:	cuda-drivers = %{version}
> %endif
>
>
> Generally I prefer to add any Requires / Provides etc to the
> nvidia-x11-drv package than the kmod package as adding to the kmod
> package must be done via the kmodtool script.
>
> So you should now be able to install that dummy cuda-drivers package I
> built for you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil
>
Thanks Phil!

Pat

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