[elrepo] kmod-nvidia and CentOS 6.5

[Campbell McLeay]

Hi Phil,

I've upgraded the machine in question to 6.7, I'll look at a rebuild when
I've got the time, or if we can just get the rest of them onto 6.7 as this
will keep cropping up I expect.

Thanks for the clarification, and for your work in packaging it up as an
rpm in the first place - much appreciated!

Regards,

Cam

On 9 September 2015 at 18:15, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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