<div dir="ltr">Hi Phil,<div><br></div><div>I've upgraded the machine in question to 6.7, I'll look at a rebuild when I've got the time, or if we can just get the rest of them onto 6.7 as this will keep cropping up I expect.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the clarification, and for your work in packaging it up as an rpm in the first place - much appreciated!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cam</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 September 2015 at 18:15, Phil Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org" target="_blank">phil@elrepo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 09/09/15 14:18, Campbell McLeay wrote:<br>
> Hi Lamar,<br>
><br>
> The boxes are not internet facing, otherwise the powers that be would have<br>
> no chance of convincing me otherwise. I've had a quick attempt at<br>
> rebuilding from the source rpm, and I may be able to get it to build, but<br>
> really I don't think it is worth the hassle and I am just going to try to<br>
> convince the various parties that there's more issues not upgrading to a<br>
> later point release, as we've had more and more issues with software<br>
> (browsers etc).<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Cam<br>
><br>
> On 9 September 2015 at 14:05, Lamar Owen <<a href="mailto:lowen@pari.edu">lowen@pari.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On 09/09/2015 06:45 AM, Campbell McLeay wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> For reasons beyond my control, we're stuck on CentOS 6.5. The latest<br>
>>> kmod-nvidia packages appear to be built for 2.6.32-573, which is not<br>
>>> available for 6.5. Is there any simple way to get the kmod-nvidia package<br>
>>> to work with 6.5 that I might be missing (beyond upgrading to 6.6)?<br>
>>><br>
>> You're probably going to get a bunch of e-mail telling you that you really<br>
>> need to be on 6.7 and stay current. If these 6.5 boxes are internet-facing<br>
>> it is a real problem since 6.5 is simply not getting any security updates<br>
>> at all. You could set up a build environment yourself, grab the source RPM<br>
>> for kmod-nvidia, and try to rebuild it. That may or may not work, but you<br>
>> can try it. The best thing is to be on 6.7; while I know that there are<br>
>> good reasons to ride a point release, it is completely unsupported by<br>
>> CentOS. Or you could migrate to ScientificLinux, where there is limited<br>
>> support for riding a particular point release. Or you could pay for Red<br>
>> Hat's equivalent product if you absolutely need that functionality.<br>
>><br>
>> It would be interesting to me to see why you just have to stay on 6.5, but<br>
>> it would probably be off-topic for this list.<br>
>><br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>Where a kmod package does not support all kernels, elrepo policy is to<br>
support the latest kernel.<br>
<br>
In this case the latest nvidia driver when built against the 6.7 kernel<br>
only supports 6.6 and 6.7 releases.<br>
<br>
You have three choices:<br>
<br>
1. Rebuild our kmod-nvidia package against your 6.5 kernel.<br>
<br>
2. Stay with kmod-nvidia-352.21-3 which was the last release to support<br>
el6.5<br>
<br>
3. Stay updated to the latest Enterprise Linux offering (currently 6.7)<br>
<br>
<br>
Hope that helps.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Phil<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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