[CentOS] kmod-nvidia?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

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. ^^^^^^^^

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