[CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread m . roth
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:37:52 -0400 From: Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu On Friday, July 20, 2012 05:30:14 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:44:07PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Available Packages kmod-nvidia.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread Ned Slider
On 23/07/12 15:48, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And for the guy from the elrepo team, you'll note it was *not* an elrepo problem, which is what I'd suspected, unless the repodata file's changed since Friday. It was a problem caused by *you* editing the default elrepo config file and not

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread m . roth
Ned Slider wrote: On 23/07/12 15:48, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And for the guy from the elrepo team, you'll note it was *not* an elrepo problem, which is what I'd suspected, unless the repodata file's changed since Friday. It was a problem caused by *you* editing the default elrepo config

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:15 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: everyone knows that some other elrepo packages result in conflicts with the base CentOS repositories. Just to clarify -- From the ELRepo web site ( http://elrepo.org ): elrepo This is the main channel and is enabled by default. As

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:15:49PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: You didn't care to pay attention to what I *DID* post. The rest of it was I think you need to calm down. You came here for help; the onus is _not_ on the readers to delve into dozens of messages to see what you may or may not

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread m . roth
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:15 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: everyone knows that some other elrepo packages result in conflicts with the base CentOS repositories. Just to clarify -- From the ELRepo web site ( http://elrepo.org ): elrepo This is the main channel and is

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread Ned Slider
On 23/07/12 17:48, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:15 AM,m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: everyone knows that some other elrepo packages result in conflicts with the base CentOS repositories. Just to clarify -- From the ELRepo web site ( http://elrepo.org ):

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Using elrepo is therefore safe unless you make modifications of course ... Except that we don't want to replace or update the main repository packages, except in very, very special cases. That was why I allowed only kmod-nvidia in

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Using elrepo is therefore safe unless you make modifications of course ... Except that we don't want to replace or update the main repository packages, except in very, very special cases. That was why I allowed

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Why would yum ever pull anything from a repostory that doesn't replace base packages unless it is something that you explicitly installed? I wouldn't. But I did want to explicitly say what I was allowing it to get, so that it