Bug 146182

Summary:	change package in nvidia-drivers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yaroslav Isakov <yaroslav.isakov>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	betelgeuse, m.debruijne
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	151759

Description Yaroslav Isakov 2006-09-03 13:38:44 UTC

I think that NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-<version>-pkg0.run will be more appropriate than other pkg, because of absence of precompiled kernel modules in pkg0. Cite README:

The 'pkg#' suffix is used to distinguish between '.run' files containing
the same driver, but different sets of precompiled kernel interfaces.

The size of pkg0 is 6-7 Mb, and pkg1 about 12 Mb. Feel the difference :)

Comment 1 konrad okurowski 2006-10-13 21:36:43 UTC

I also agree that pkg0 is just enough, I'vetested pkg1 and pkg0 and there is no difference except of size :)

Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-17 06:47:41 UTC

Fixed in the tree now... thanks

Comment 3 S.M. Barbie 2006-10-18 01:25:46 UTC

Please revert this change for the amd64 package. The package is smaller, yes. But it also lacks the 32bit libraries. Doom3-demo will no longer work, wine will no longer be able to find suitable opengl libraries and whatnot else.

You notice that when emerging the nvidia-driver. The install process will complain about something like: "cannot stat /usr/lib32/opengl/ ... "

It took me hours to find that error.

Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-18 15:03:59 UTC

done