[elrepo] Issues with kmod-nvidia listing for EL7

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Fred Smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:41:47AM -0700, Scott Kasai wrote:
>> Is anyone having issues trying to get the latest version of
>> kmod-nvidia from El Repo?
>>
>> According to the http://repos.lax-noc.com/elrepo, more specifically:
>>
>> http://repos.lax-noc.com/elrepo/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/
>>
>> I see a listing for kmod-nvidia-375.39-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm...
>>
>> But when I do a yum list | grep nvidia
>>
>> I see only the kmod-nvidia 375.20-1 version, not even the 26 or the
>> 39 versions.
>>
>> I had to back out of the kernel update due to the driver issue. I
>> also tried yum install kmod-nvidia-375.39-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64 and
>> could not pull it.
>
> do you have nvidia excluded from yum in, perhaps /etc/yum.conf?

Or else, try running:

yum clean all

If elrepo is not enabled, just add "--enablerepo=elrepo" to the command.

Another possibility is that you are accessing a mirror that is not up
to date. When running yum, do you see the name of the mirror for the
elrepo repository?

Akemi