[CentOS] Yum excluding packages I need

Sat Jan 12 13:11:37 UTC 2019
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 11/01/2019 19:11, 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.
> 

That's complete nonsense.

If you want to assert such ridiculous claims, please provide evidence to 
support them.