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

2012-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM, 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 wouldn't acci

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

2012-07-23 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM, 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 >> on

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

2012-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM, 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 the repo.

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, 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 m . roth
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:15 AM, 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

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 hav

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

2012-07-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:15 AM, 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 this channel shou

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

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 unde

[CentOS] Fwd: Re: kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-23 Thread m . roth
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:37:52 -0400 From: Lamar Owen 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_64 295.59-1.el6.elrepo