CentOS - Jul 2012 - kmod-nvidia?

I just went to install kmod-nvidia on a 64-bit CentOS 6.2 system... and
enabling elrepo, yum can't find it. There's a page for it, but that was
last updated last year, and there are also references to packages for
older Nvidia cards, but not the current.

What do I not know?

      mark

Am 20.07.2012 16:44, schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us:
> I just went to install kmod-nvidia on a 64-bit CentOS 6.2 system... and
> enabling elrepo, yum can't find it. There's a page for it, but that
was
> last updated last year, and there are also references to packages for
> older Nvidia cards, but not the current.
>
> What do I not know?
>
You seem to have missed the fact that Nvidia sucks :)

At least on our elrepo mirror site there are recent kmod-nvidia 
packages. The Package kmod-nvidia-295.59-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm is just 
a few days old.
Maybe your yum configuration went bad?

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Andreas

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Ned Slider wrote:
> On 20/07/12 16:55, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Jay Leafey wrote:
>>> On 07/20/2012 10:32 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>> Now that he's up, which was my highest priority, I'm
back to looking
around. I did a yum clean all, then yum --enablerepo=elrepo
list
>>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> \*nvidia\*, and see
>>>>    * elrepo: mirror.symnds.com
>>>> so this was what the mirrorlist came up with. That there's
something
screwy there.
>>>>
>>>> So I just pointed my browser there, and found elrepo there
under
distributions/elrepo. Anyone got any ideas why it finds that it's
there, but yum doesn't see the actual repo (and yes,
the
>>>> kmod-nvidia packages are there)?
>>>
>> <snip>
>>> Just a thought, have you tried flushing yum's metadata?  I have
run
across a couple of instances where yum seems to get a bit... retentive
and won't retrieve new metadata for one or more repositories.  I
usually
>>> run "yum clean metadata" or "yum clean all",
then re-try the operation.
>>>    Unless it is something *I* have boogered badly it usually works.
>>>
>> See emphasized line, above, from previous email. ^^^^^^^^
>
>
> Please post the output from:
>
> cat /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo
>
> and
>
> yum list \*kmod-nvidia\*
>
> thanks.
Y'know, I appreciate any and all help, but I'm beginning to feel those
trying to help haven't actually *read* my previous posts. Jay suggested I
do a yum clean all, when I already said I'd done that; Ned's asking for
what the repo looks like, when I posted the top bit and said the rest of
the entries were the same....

Repeating my original post:
### Name: ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository for el6 ###
URL: http://elrepo.org/

[elrepo]
name=ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el6
baseurl=http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://elrepo.org/mirrors-elrepo.el6
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
protect=0
includepkgs=kmod-nvidia

and the entries for elrepo-testing, elrepo-kernel, and elrepo-extras are
the same.
>
> PS - This query would really be better placed on the elrepo users
mailing lists rather than the general CentOS mailing lists.

But the real question not about elrepo, which clearly *has* kmod-nvidia,
but why yum can't find the repo, and that is on target for this list.

        mark