[CentOS] Yum excluding packages I need

[mark]

mark wrote:
> Stephen Berg (Code 7309) wrote:
>
>> On 1/11/19 10:41 AM, mark wrote:
>>
>>
>>> C7, and I did a yum update --disableexcludes=all, and yet it's
>>> telling me [nvidia]: excluding
>>> kmod-nvidia-410.66-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding
>>> kmod-nvidia-410.73-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding
>>> kmod-nvidia-410.73-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding
>>> kmod-nvidia-410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding
>>> kmod-nvidia-410.93-1.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64
> <...>
>
>>> Even with a -vvv flag, it doesn't tell me why it's excluding them.
>>>
>>>
>> Pretty sure that's the yum-plugin-nvidia.noarch doing it's thing to
>> keep the wrong nvidia drivers from getting installed.
>
> Y'all will love this: you *can't* update yum-plugin-nvidia - *it* is
> excluded by itself.

Ok, final resolution: reinstalled the 390... and there's no driver for the
current kernel. I did an rpm -ql, and it's for an 862 kernel.

Time to remove, and go to the proprietary (this server has two Tesla
cards, and uses CUDA).

     mark