Bug 211851

Summary:	nvidia-drivers-169.12 possibly has wrong binary tarball
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Armando Di Cianno <armando>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Armando Di Cianno 2008-02-28 22:44:04 UTC

There seems to be two versions of 169.12 -- pkg0 and pkg1.  I'm not sure of the difference.

I noticed this file downloaded, when I emerge'd -f:
  /var/portage/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0.run
However, the current NVIDIA page says:
  "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12.pkg1.run"

Note the pkg0 v. pkg1 near the end.

The pkg1 links to:
  http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run

If you change the URI to "pkg0", then that link also works.

lankhmar ~ # md5sum /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0.run 
e7aaca79c846e34cfe8111040bfee2d0  /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0.run
lankhmar ~ # md5sum /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run 
c1d45a150a90e6a11da21623493a628e  /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run

lankhmar ~ # ls -l /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0.run 
-rw-r--r-- 1 fafhrd fafhrd 10190818 Feb 28 17:35 /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0.run
lankhmar ~ # ls -l /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run 
-rw-r--r-- 1 fafhrd fafhrd 17636559 Feb 28 17:38 /home/fafhrd/Desktop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run

So ... is there a difference?  Just letting you know.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 James Kirkham 2008-02-29 00:03:34 UTC

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run includes numerous "precompiled kernel interfaces" for various binary distributions such as Fedora and SuSE; these are of course no use to us Gentoo users.  If you want to query the difference between the NVIDIA packages in the future the simplest means is to extract the data 'sh NVIDIA-LINUX-x86-169.12-pkg1.run --extract-only' and view the contents of the pkg-history.txt file within the resulting directory.

Comment 2 Armando Di Cianno 2008-02-29 02:45:55 UTC

Ahh ... well, that makes sense.  Is that documented somewhere?

I didn't want to post a useless bug, but this seemed mysterious to me.

Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-04 15:31:36 UTC

It's documented on NVIDIA website, I believe in the readme it states what each driver package includes.