[elrepo] Oops, updated to el7_7 on CentOS 7.6, can I revert to el7_6?

[Trevor Hemsley]

On 09/08/2019 18:02, Seth Goldin wrote:
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:51 PM Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com<mailto:themsley at voiceflex.com>> wrote:
It's not the elrepo-release package that's the problem. You should update that again.

I don't understand. If I want to install some package in ELRepo, but I'm using elrepo-release-7.0-4 on CentOS 7.6, won't it just fail? Shouldn't I only attempt to install with elrepo-release-7.0-3 installed if I'm still on CentOS 7.6?

-- Seth.

That's the package that provides the repo definition for yum to use. Without it, yum would not know about elrepo at all. If you downgrade that package it does not affect the contents of that repo at all - it doesn't automatically point you at some backup old version of it.

You want the latest elrepo-release package and then on each yum command until CentOS 7.7 comes out you will need to add e.g. --exclude=\*nvidia\* to exclude those nvidia packages that have been updated for RHEL 7.7. Or add that exclude to your repo file but then you have to remember to remove it again when you do want the updates.

Trevor

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