[elrepo] kmod-nvidia and CentOS 6.5

[Lamar Owen]

On 09/09/2015 06:45 AM, Campbell McLeay wrote:
> For reasons beyond my control, we're stuck on CentOS 6.5. The latest 
> kmod-nvidia packages appear to be built for 2.6.32-573, which is not 
> available for 6.5. Is there any simple way to get the kmod-nvidia 
> package to work with 6.5 that I might be missing (beyond upgrading to 
> 6.6)?
You're probably going to get a bunch of e-mail telling you that you 
really need to be on 6.7 and stay current.  If these 6.5 boxes are 
internet-facing it is a real problem since 6.5 is simply not getting any 
security updates at all.  You could set up a build environment yourself, 
grab the source RPM for kmod-nvidia, and try to rebuild it.  That may or 
may not work, but you can try it.  The best thing is to be on 6.7; while 
I know that there are good reasons to ride a point release, it is 
completely unsupported by CentOS.  Or you could migrate to 
ScientificLinux, where there is limited support for riding a particular 
point release.  Or you could pay for Red Hat's equivalent product if you 
absolutely need that functionality.

It would be interesting to me to see why you just have to stay on 6.5, 
but it would probably be off-topic for this list.