[elrepo] kmod-nvidia and CentOS 6.5

[Phil Perry]

On 09/09/15 14:18, Campbell McLeay wrote:
> 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.
>>


Where a kmod package does not support all kernels, elrepo policy is to
support the latest kernel.

In this case the latest nvidia driver when built against the 6.7 kernel
only supports 6.6 and 6.7 releases.

You have three choices:

1. Rebuild our kmod-nvidia package against your 6.5 kernel.

2. Stay with kmod-nvidia-352.21-3 which was the last release to support
el6.5

3. Stay updated to the latest Enterprise Linux offering (currently 6.7)


Hope that helps.

Phil