[elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Phil Perry]

On 20/09/16 21:53, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 08:51 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 20/09/16 17:38, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> * Xorg Xserver 1.18.3 now here the funny part:-) in 7.3 it's 1.17.2, but
>>> in the changelog of xf86-video-intel there is rebuild just because
>>> reenable dri, since 7.3 is based on xorg 1.18!?? so either they plan to
>>> rebase to 1.18 or it's an 1.18 looks like an 1.17?!
>>>
>>
>> The 7.3beta has Xorg 1.17.2. The norm over the lifespan of RHEL 6 and 7
>> has been to update Xorg every other release (see below), so I would
>> expect Xorg to stay at 1.17 for 7.3 and next be updated in 7.4.
>
> may be...but in 7.3 beta i read it (just see the last 3 entry):
> # rpm -qp --changelog xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-21.20151206.el7.src.rpm
> * Tue Aug 09 2016 Rob Clark <rclark at redhat.com> - 2.99.917-21.20151109
> - update kbl pci ids
>
> * Wed May 18 2016 Lyude Paul <cpaul at redhat.com> - 2.99.917-20.20151109
> - Update to upstream package.
> - Fix trailing whitespace
> - Add some patches to fix issues with ignoring DP MST hotplugs
>
> * Sun Dec 06 2015 Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah at gmail.com> -
> 2.99.917-19.20151109
> - Update to 20151206 snapshot
>
> * Tue Nov 17 2015 Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah at gmail.com> -
> 2.99.917-18.20151109
> - Reenable DRI3 - we ship xserver 1.18 now
>
> * Mon Nov 09 2015 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> - 2.99.917-17.20151109
> - Update to 20151109 snapshot
>
> * Wed Sep 16 2015 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> - 2.99.917-16.20150729
> - 1.18 ABI rebuild
>
>

Look at the dates (Wed Sep 16 2015). Clearly RHEL7 wasn't shipping Xorg 
1.18 a year ago, so my guess is that the SPEC file has been pulled in 
from Fedora.

This is supported by the fact the last RHEL7 release for this package was:

[phil at MRHEL7 ~]$ rpm -q --changelog xorg-x11-drv-intel | more
* Mon Jun 15 2015 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.99.917-8
- update with newer snapshot - fixes some PRIME issues

so any changelog entries after this do not relate to a RHEL release.

I agree that this is messy and certainly not ideal when trying to track 
changes within the RHEL space, but unfortunately it is not uncommon. 
Development happens in Fedora and filters through to RHEL.