[elrepo] kmod-nvidia.el7_4 not available in ELRepo repositories

[Frank Thommen]

On 11/21/2018 08:29 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:59 AM Frank Thommen
> <f.thommen at dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've learned in the past discussions, that an
>>
>>     exclude=*el7_5.elrepo* *el7_6.elrepo* *el7_7.elrepo*
>>
>> in /etc/yym.conf prevents my CentOS 7.4 systems to try to install too
>> new kmod-nvidia packages.  Unfortunately now I don't get /any/ possible
>> candidate for kmod-nvidia:
>>
>> $ yum install kmod-nvidia
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> [...]
>> Determining fastest mirrors
>>    * elrepo: dfw.mirror.rackspace.com
>> No package kmod-nvidia available.
>> Error: Nothing to do
>> $
>>
>> The repositories don't seem to contain any version older than for CentOS
>> 7.5 and he repofile for ELRepo doesn't contain any "vault" or "archive"
>> repos.
>>
>> How to deal with that?
>>
>> And no, we don't have any elrepo mirror (yet), because a) we only very
>> recently introduced nodes with GPUs and b) this issue took us as a surprise.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated
>> frank
> 
> You can find old archives here (thanks to Lucian)
> 
> http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo-archive-archive/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/
> 
> Akemi

Thanks for the link and Lucian for the archive archive.
frank