[elrepo] missing nvidia-x11-drv-390xx for el7_7

[Phil Perry]

On 15/02/2020 00:04, Steve Cleveland wrote:
> On 2/12/20 12:45 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 12/02/2020 20:20, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
>>> On 12/02/2020 19:33, Steve Cleveland wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If I don't enable the vault (see 
>>>> https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=941), el7.6 packages are 
>>>> excluded by the elrepo plugin.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You don't need vault. You install the 7.7 kernel. You install the 
>>> el7_7 kmod and it pulls in the el7_6 userspace. no vault required.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, Steve is right. If an el7.6 kernel is not available to yum, 
>> then all 'el7.6' packages are excluded, including the 
>> nvidia-x11-drv-390xx package required in this case.
>>
>> The workaround is to (temporarily) enable vault so the old el7.6 
>> kernel is visible to yum, or leave a copy of the older el7.6 kernel 
>> installed on the system.
>>
>> This issue is caused by a fundamental difference between RHEL where 
>> all packages are available in a single channel, and CentOS where only 
>> the latest point release packages are available and all older content 
>> is moved to the vault. In this case the plugin was developed on and 
>> written for RHEL, and CentOS' divergence breaks compatibility.
>>
> I understand this is a difficult issue (and I also see that I never said 
> I was running CentOS but you are correct).  Without doing an in depth 
> google search, a normal user may not discover this workaround.  Would it 
> be possible to rebuild those userspace packages for the current kernel, 
> even if there's no version change? I can't currently see a downside to 
> that approach for RHEL.  I could be wrong.
> 
>   - Steve
> 

Steve,

Update built and pushed to the el7 repository which should fix the issue 
for you. As you say, it's not going to do any harm. Package should be 
available shortly once mirrors are in sync.

Phil