[CentOS] Yum excluding packages I need

Fri Jan 11 19:11:24 UTC 2019
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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.

      mark