[elrepo] yum-plugin-nvidia breaks systems

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/27/18 11:37 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:15 AM Orion Poplawski <orion at nwra.com> wrote:
>>
>> This morning a laptop without an nVidia card in it installed the following:
>>
>> Nov 27 03:42:21 Installed: yum-plugin-nvidia.noarch 1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo
>> Nov 27 03:46:19 Installed: kmod-nvidia.x86_64 410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo
>> Nov 27 03:48:22 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo
>> Nov 27 03:50:43 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64 410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo
>>
>> effectively breaking it.  I don't know why they got installed, the system just
>> did an automatic update via yum-cron.
> 
> I have no idea why your yum-cron suddenly decided to install those
> nvidia packages. Do you have any log file to look at? Some package(s)
> pulled them in???
> 
> Akemi

Unfortunately there is no log of the depsolving that went into that
transaction.  And I cannot reproduce it now by undoing that transaction and
running and update again - possibly because new updates have arrived in the
sl-security repo changing the transaction.

I'll also note that on one system with the nvidia driver already installed, it
decided to install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64 as well.

I can only think that it decided that it was a better fit for something like
libEGL.so.1 than mesa-libEGL was.


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