[elrepo] Failure to install kmod-nvidia on CentOS 7.4 (kernel symbol(?) requirements wrong)

[Frank Thommen]

On 14/10/18 19:22, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:05 AM Frank Thommen
> <f.thommen at dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 14/10/18 18:53, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
>>> On 14/10/18 17:45, Frank Thommen wrote:
>>>> I'm currently trying to install kmod-nvidia from ELRepo on a CentOS
>>>> 7.4 system (kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64).  The installation fails
>>>> with lots of required kernel symbols or symbol addresses(?) not being
>>>> correct.  E.g.:
>>>
>>> The *current* kmod-nvidia requires the *current* CentOS 7 kernel. You're
>>> running 7.4 which is about 6 months behind current - currently 7.5 with
>>> 7.6 probably imminent. You should be on 7.5 so your best solution is to
>>> `yum update` to get to 7.5 then use the current kmod-nvidia. If you
>>> cannot do that then the next best solution (and it's a very next best,
>>> to be avoided if at all possible), is to work out what kmod-nvidia
>>> package was the last for 7.4 and to install that specifically by full
>>> package name-version number.
>>>
>>> Trevor
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately updating is no option for us.  We use special hardware
>> where the drivers are only supported up to CentOS 7.4.  Normally the
>> support for these devices lags one or two releases behind.
>>
>> I have tried all three kmod-nvidia versions available in the ELRepo
>> repository and the installation doesn't work with any of these.
>>
>> frank
> 
> Well, if you are determined to install the version that works with EL
> 7.4, you can find it in our archives. For example:
> 
> http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo/archive/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/
> 
> Note the .el7_4 tag.
> 
> Akemi

Thanks a lot.  This answers the more general question in my previous post.
frank