[elrepo] Nvidia 370 series drivers

[Phil Perry]

On 27/10/16 17:37, Harry Mallon wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Nvidia version 370.28 has been released. Will ELREPO be providing builds from this 'short term branch'? If so will they be the glvnd version by default?
>
> Details here:
> https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/107408/en-us
>
> Yours,
> Harry
>
> Harry Mallon
>

Hi Harry,

We normally only release the Long Lived branch, as it's Enterprise 
Linux, so no we don't currently have any plans to release the current 
370.xx short lived driver release.

WRT your GLVND query, we currently have GLVND-enabled packages for the 
latest long lived driver release in the testing repositories for el6 and 
el7. Note they have 'glvnd' in the release string so represent an 
'update' to the 'regular' non-GLVND packages, for example:

http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el7/x86_64/RPMS/nvidia-x11-drv-367.57-1.glvnd.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

So if you want the GLVND-enabled package(s), just enable the testing 
repo when you update:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update nvidia\*

As we've had no issues reported to date for the GLVND-enabled packages 
in testing, the plan is to make the switch to GLVND-enabled packages by 
default for the next major Long Lived release, whenever that may come 
from NVIDIA.

Hope that helps,

Phil