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

[Frank Thommen]

On 11/22/2018 06:18 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 22/11/2018 14:10, Frank Thommen wrote:
>> On 11/22/2018 12:17 PM, Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Hmm.  But there is no el7_4 for kmod-nvidia-410.x in archive-archive 
>> either :-(
>>
>> frank
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> Looking back in the changelog for kmod-nvidia, the last version built 
> for el7.4 was version 390.48-1
> 
> So I suggest you try installing:
> 
> http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo-archive-archive/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-nvidia-390.48-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 
> 
> 
> and the matching nvidia-x11-drv package:
> 
> http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo-archive-archive/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/nvidia-x11-drv-390.48-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 
> 
> 
> We only build for the latest point release, so there will not be any 
> later packages for el7.4 from elrepo.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Phil

Thanks for the clarification Phil.  Since this is for developers who 
normally require the latest possible driver, I will probably give it a 
try to build the RPMs myself.  This could be a good exercise :-)

Cheers
frank