What pulls in nvidia-x11-drv when using elrepo in a kickstart installation?

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Heinervdm
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What pulls in nvidia-x11-drv when using elrepo in a kickstart installation?

Post by Heinervdm » 2017/03/27 17:57:36

Hi,
I'm preparing a Kickstart installation file to install several systems. In this Kickstart configuration I'm having the elrepo enabled, as I need one of the kernel modules provided there. I'm doing a normal Gnome Desktop installation.
The problem is that since this Repository is used in my configuration the nvidia-x11-drv-340xx and kmod-nvidia-340xx package is installed automatically. I have not added them to the packages list and the PC doesn't even have an nvidia graphics card...

Can someone tell me what is pulling in this package? I suspect that some package has a Supplements: nvidia-x11-drv, but I can't figure out which one and how to prevent the nvidia package to be installed.
I already tried to blacklist these packages by adding the following lines to the packages section:

-nvidia-x11-drv-340xx
-nvidia-x11-drv
-kmod-nvidia
-kmod-nvidia-340xx

But this doesn't help either.

I hope someone can help me.

Thanks,
Heiner

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Re: What pulls in nvidia-x11-drv when using elrepo in a kickstart installation?

Post by TrevorH » 2017/03/27 18:53:20

If you yum remove them once it's finished then whatever it was that pulled them in should be on the list of packages to be removed.
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Re: What pulls in nvidia-x11-drv when using elrepo in a kickstart installation?

Post by Heinervdm » 2017/03/28 07:28:48

Thank you for this hint.

When I try to remove the nvidia package, all Xorg is removed.

Xorg requires libGL.so which is provided by the nvidia-x11-drv package. I've added the mesa-libGL, mesa-libEGL and mesa-libGLU package explicitly to my kickstart configuration and now the nvidia package is no longer installed.

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