[elrepo] Announcement: EL7 Release of yum-plugin-elrepo

[Phil Perry]

Announcing the release of a new package to the elrepo repository:

yum-plugin-elrepo-7.5.1-1.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm

yum-plugin-elrepo provides a yum plugin to exclude kmod packages from 
the yum transaction set which require kernels that are not yet available.

Elrepo.org provide kmod packages for RHEL and compatible distros. RHEL 
point releases sometimes break kABI compatibility requiring a rebuild of 
the kmod package against the latest RHEL kernel.

When this occurs at a RHEL point release, compatible distros such as 
CentOS and Scientific Linux often have yet to release their 
corresponding kernels which causes unresolved dependency errors in yum.

This plugin seeks to determine the kernel version that any given kmod 
package is built against and then determine if the corresponding kernel 
is available. If the corresponding kernel is not available, the kmod 
package will be excluded from the yum transaction set until the required 
kernel becomes available.

Note: CentOS users will need to enable the CentOS Vault repositories to 
make previous kernels available to yum otherwise older kmod packages may 
be excluded.

Bugs should be reported at http://elrepo.org/bugs

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.