Bug 395385

Summary:	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-{96.43.20.173.14.31} does not work with the >x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 ABI
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	pacho, spock
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=169362
See Also:	http://bugs.debian.org/641621
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	403941
Bug Blocks:	394393

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-20 18:33:22 UTC

I guess the same will prove true for 96.43.20. I tried running with -ignoreABI, but that only made the server segfault, so the workaround for now is to block the 1.11 upgrade using something like:

echo >x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 >> /etc/portage/package.mask/nvidia-drivers

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-20 18:33:43 UTC

I'm not even sure it should block the stabilisation bug.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-20 18:37:30 UTC

Oh, I should, I guess, since the Whiteboard on the blocked bug says:

   if you find regression please DON'T COMMENT HERE, instead 
   file a new bug and make it block this bug

yay

Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-12-20 22:12:09 UTC

I guess similar to bug 375215, NVidia will take more time to update legacy drivers.

If I understand correctly, no package.mask is necessary, as the <x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 dependency will make 96.* and 173.* users skip the xorg-server upgrade.

If package.mask is preferred, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml could tell users to additionally mask >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 for the legacy drivers.

Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-23 15:38:49 UTC

The depends present are correct to make users skip the xorg-server update.