yum packaging nvidia modprobe

Overview

Packaging templates for yum and dnf based Linux distros to build NVIDIA modprobe packages.

The main branch contains this README. The .spec and .patch files can be found in the appropriate rhel7, rhel8, and fedora branches.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Deliverables
• Prerequisites
  • Clone this git repository
  • Install build dependencies
• Building with script
• Building Manually
• Related
  • DKMS nvidia
  • NVIDIA driver
  • NVIDIA kmod common
  • NVIDIA persistenced
  • NVIDIA plugin
  • NVIDIA precompiled kmod
  • NVIDIA settings
  • NVIDIA xconfig
• Contributing

Deliverables

This repo contains the .spec file used to build the following RPM packages:

note: XXX is the first . delimited field in the driver version, ex: 460 in 460.32.03

• RHEL8 or Fedora streams: XXX, XXX-dkms, latest, and latest-dkms

nvidia-modprobe

For RHEL7 and derivatives, there are three sets of packages with different package dependencies.

The latest and latest-dkms flavors always update to the highest versioned driver, while the branch-XXX flavor locks driver updates to the specified driver branch.

• RHEL7 flavor: latest-dkms

nvidia-driver-latest-dkms-modprobe

note: XXX-dkms is not supported for RHEL7

To use the precompiled flavors latest and branch-XXX, use yum-packaging-precompiled-kmod to build kmod-nvidia-latest or kmod-nvidia-branch-XXX kernel modules for a specific kernel and driver combination.

• RHEL7 flavor: latest

nvidia-driver-latest-modprobe

• RHEL7 flavor: branch-XXX

nvidia-driver-branch-XXX-modprobe

Prerequisites

Clone this git repository:

Supported branches: rhel7, rhel8 & fedora

git clone -b ${branch} https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-modprobe
> ex: git clone -b rhel8 https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-modprobe

Download a NVIDIA modprobe tarball:

• Source code location: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe/releases

  ex: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe/archive/460.32.03.tar.gz

  ex: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe/archive/460.56.tar.gz

Install build dependencies

# Compilation
yum install m4 gcc
# Packaging
yum install rpm-build

Building with script

Fetch script from main branch

cd yum-packaging-nvidia-modprobe
git checkout remotes/origin/main -- build.sh

Usage

./build.sh [$version | path/to/*.tar.{gz,bz2} | path/to/*.run]
> ex: time ./build.sh 460.32.03
> ex: time ./build.sh ~/Downloads/nvidia-modprobe-450.102.04.tar.bz2
> ex: time ./build.sh ~/Downloads/nvidia-modprobe-460.32.03.tar.gz
> ex: time ./build.sh ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.102.04.run

note: runfile is only used to determine version

Building Manually

Packaging (dnf distros)

note: fedora & rhel8-based distros

mkdir BUILD BUILDROOT RPMS SRPMS SOURCES SPECS
cp *.patch SOURCES/
cp nvidia-modprobe-${version}.tar.gz SOURCES/
cp nvidia-modprobe.spec SPECS/

rpmbuild \
    --define "%_topdir $(pwd)" \
    --define "debug_package %{nil}" \
    --define "version $version" \
    --define "epoch 3" \
    --define "extension gz" \
    -v -bb SPECS/nvidia-modprobe.spec

Packaging (yum distros)

note: rhel7-based distros

mkdir BUILD BUILDROOT RPMS SRPMS SOURCES SPECS
cp *.patch SOURCES/
cp nvidia-modprobe-${version}.tar.gz SOURCES/
cp nvidia-modprobe.spec SPECS/

# latest-dkms
rpmbuild \
    --define "%_topdir $(pwd)" \
    --define "debug_package %{nil}" \
    --define "version $version" \
    --define "driver_branch latest-dkms" \
    --define "is_dkms 1" \
    --define "is_latest 1" \
    --define "epoch 3" \
    --define "extension gz" \
    -v -bb SPECS/nvidia-modprobe.spec

# latest
rpmbuild \
    --define "%_topdir $(pwd)" \
    --define "debug_package %{nil}" \
    --define "version $version" \
    --define "driver_branch latest" \
    --define "is_dkms 0" \
    --define "is_latest 1" \
    --define "epoch 3" \
    --define "extension gz" \
    -v -bb SPECS/nvidia-modprobe.spec

# branch-460
rpmbuild \
    --define "%_topdir $(pwd)" \
    --define "debug_package %{nil}" \
    --define "version $version" \
    --define "driver_branch branch-460" \
    --define "is_dkms 0" \
    --define "is_latest 0" \
    --define "epoch 3" \
    --define "extension gz" \
    -v -bb SPECS/nvidia-modprobe.spec

Related

DKMS nvidia

• dkms-nvidia
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-dkms-nvidia

NVIDIA driver

• nvidia-driver
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-driver

NVIDIA kmod common

• Common files
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-kmod-common

NVIDIA persistenced

• nvidia-persistenced
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-persistenced

NVIDIA plugin

• dnf-plugin-nvidia & yum-plugin-nvidia
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-plugin

NVIDIA precompiled kmod

• Precompiled kernel modules
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-precompiled-kmod

NVIDIA settings

• nvidia-settings
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-settings

NVIDIA xconfig

• nvidia-xconfig
  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-xconfig

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md