[elrepo] kmod-nvidia and CentOS 6.5

[Campbell McLeay]

Hi Lamar,

The boxes are not internet facing, otherwise the powers that be would have
no chance of convincing me otherwise. I've had a quick attempt at
rebuilding from the source rpm, and I may be able to get it to build, but
really I don't think it is worth the hassle and I am just going to try to
convince the various parties that there's more issues not upgrading to a
later point release, as we've had more and more issues with software
(browsers etc).

Thanks,

Cam

On 9 September 2015 at 14:05, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
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