[elrepo] Announcement: EL6 and EL7 Updated NVIDIA drivers [375.20]

[Phil Perry]

On 21/11/16 18:46, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 12:00:41AM +0000, Phil Perry wrote:
>> Announcing the release of updated NVIDIA 375.20 packages ...
>>
>> Packages for el7 require the 7.3 kernel ...
>>
>
> the CentOS 7.3 kernels are not available (see https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=60132)
>
> is it possible at all for ELREPO to provide nvidia packages for the current release of CentOS? (7.2 as opposed to the *future* release 7.3).
>

Elrepo supports RHEL and it's clones. All our packages are built on RHEL 
for RHEL. Inevitably from time to time it takes the clones a while to 
catch up with updates and I know the guys at CentOS are working flat out 
to get their product out the door asap.

Unfortunately, in the case of the kmod-nvidia package, because the 
driver uses kernel symbols that are not on RH's kABI whitelist, the 
driver is neither backward nor forward-compatible with kernels other 
than the kernel series it is built against. Thus, if we were to continue 
building against the old 7.2 kernel it would cause systems running 
genuine RHEL to break when updated to 7.3 (and any other clones who 
release 7.3 before CentOS). Whilst it may be frustrating for CentOS 
users, this solution does least harm and doesn't break anyone's system 
in the meantime.

So your perspective will influence your view of what is current, what is 
old and what is a future release.

I'm sure CentOS will release their new kernel soon so hopefully you can 
hang on a few more days before updating your nvidia drivers :-)