[elrepo] Announcement: EL7 Updated kmod-nvidia package for RHEL7.6

[Frank Thommen]

On 11/19/2018 11:41 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018, Phil Perry wrote:
> 
>> In the future I may deprecate/remove this feature so the plugin will 
>> only work (correctly) if all kernels are available, but I'd like some 
>> discussion about how best to handle this. I believe option (1) is more 
>> robust than any fudge / workaround I can implement and will allow the 
>> plugin to work seamlessly going forward, including on unsupported 
>> setups where people have stayed on older point releases. It doesn't 
>> matter whether we are talking now, transitioning from el7.5 to el7.6, 
>> or 6-12 months from now transitioning from el7.6 to el7.7, or for 
>> someone who for whatever reason has stayed on el7.4 (or whatever point 
>> release). The plugin should just work in all scenarios as long as all 
>> kernels are available to yum (in reality it doesn't even need to be 
>> all kernels, just the base kernel from each point release).
> 
> Personally I'd ignore the use case of people staying on old point 
> releases of
> CentOS.  This isn't a supported setup, and I think you should treat it the
> same way.

But this also means ignoring reality, as there can be very good reasons 
not to update (or to update with considerable delay).  E.g. we run a big 
HPC cluster based on CentOS and we /cannot/ update due to drivers for 
special hardware (Infiniband) which usually is one or two point releases 
behind.


> Your solution sounds workable, and obviously people don't need to 
> install this
> plugin if they don't like it.  They have a workaround available to them 
> should
> they want the full benefit, but it'd require local repo rejigs, at least by
> including base kernels in a local mirror.
> 
> Assuming I didn't rejig the repos, and I was running machines on the 
> current
> point release, this would cause me no bother, as it'd not hide any old 
> kmods,
> as the only kmods considered for exclusion would be latest point release 
> ones.
> That right?
> 
> Looks good to me Phil.
> 
> jh

frank