<div dir="ltr">Phil, that is perfect! That is <i>exactly</i> what I wanted. I installed that and now I'm not getting bothered by `yum update` for the packages specific to RHEL 7.7, even while having elrepo-release-7.0-4.el7.elrepo installed on CentOS 7.6. Thank you so much.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><br></div><div>-- Seth.</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:33 PM Phil Perry <<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org">phil@elrepo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 09/08/2019 18:31, Seth Goldin wrote:<br>
> Got it, thanks.<br>
> <br>
> -- Seth.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:29 PM Trevor Hemsley <<a href="mailto:themsley@voiceflex.com" target="_blank">themsley@voiceflex.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:themsley@voiceflex.com" target="_blank">themsley@voiceflex.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> On 09/08/2019 18:02, Seth Goldin wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:51 PM Trevor Hemsley<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:themsley@voiceflex.com" target="_blank">themsley@voiceflex.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:themsley@voiceflex.com" target="_blank">themsley@voiceflex.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> It's not the elrepo-release package that's the problem. You<br>
>> should update that again.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I don't understand. If I want to install some package in ELRepo,<br>
>> but I'm using elrepo-release-7.0-4 on CentOS 7.6, won't it just<br>
>> fail? Shouldn't I only attempt to install<br>
>> with elrepo-release-7.0-3 installed if I'm still on CentOS 7.6?<br>
>><br>
>> -- Seth.<br>
> <br>
> That's the package that provides the repo definition for yum to use.<br>
> Without it, yum would not know about elrepo at all. If you downgrade<br>
> that package it does not affect the contents of that repo at all -<br>
> it doesn't automatically point you at some backup old version of it.<br>
> <br>
> You want the latest elrepo-release package and then on each yum<br>
> command until CentOS 7.7 comes out you will need to add e.g.<br>
> --exclude=\*nvidia\* to exclude those nvidia packages that have been<br>
> updated for RHEL 7.7. Or add that exclude to your repo file but then<br>
> you have to remember to remove it again when you do want the updates.<br>
> <br>
> Trevor<br>
> <br>
> <br>
<br>
Looks like Seth has resolved his issues now so this may just be a <br>
footnote, but in the scenario Trever describes above the <br>
yum-plugin-elrepo package exists to prevent, for example, el7.7 specific <br>
packages being offered to yum for users who are still on el7.6. The yum <br>
plugin will automagically mask (hide) any packages requiring a newer <br>
kernel on systems where that newer kernel is not yet available. Then as <br>
soon as that newer kernel becomes available (for example, CentOS 7.7 is <br>
released), yum will automagically find the el7.7 specific kmod packages <br>
that need updating.<br>
<br>
So, I would strongly recommend that non-RHEL / CentOS users install the <br>
yum-plugin-elrepo package.<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
<br>
<br>
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