Bug 140922

Summary:	Mark x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers stable on x86
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kris Kersey (RETIRED) <augustus>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	brebs, eonwe, napalmllama, radfoj
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kris Kersey (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-18 08:25:28 UTC

So that all Gentoo users can get up to speed with the new x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ebuild, I would like to mark it stable on both platforms.

Please post any objections here.  I plan on doing this in one week depending on feedback.

Soon after this I also plan on removing the old media-video/nvidia-(glx/kernel) ebuilds.

Comment 1 Jules Gagnon 2006-07-19 11:41:38 UTC

I am using nvidia-drivers-1.0.8762-r1 on x86 with xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 without any problem.

Comment 2 Tom Lloyd 2006-07-19 16:12:45 UTC

I'd suggest hard-masking the old ebuild series for a while before removing it completely.  That way, if any users that haven't read this bug sync and suddenly find the new system doesn't work for them, they can still unmask the old (working) version until the problem's fixed.

Comment 3 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-20 08:05:31 UTC

uhm, which version do you want stable?

Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-21 12:18:33 UTC

-r1, please...

As for masking the old ones, the plan is to do package moves, instead.  Anyone who hasn't updated will end up switched automatically.  The older packages are crusty and broken in many ways, so letting users remain on them isn't in anyone's best interest.

Comment 5 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-06 04:51:56 UTC

amd64 is happy

Comment 6 Joshua Jackson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-07 21:04:09 UTC

x86 stable ^.^;;