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

[Seth Goldin]

Got it, thanks.

-- Seth.


On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:29 PM Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com>
wrote:

> On 09/08/2019 18:02, Seth Goldin wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:51 PM Trevor Hemsley <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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