Bug 73644

Summary:	media-video/nvidia-kernel and media-video/nvidia-glx uses wrong source package
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nils Marving <nils>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nils Marving 2004-12-07 03:33:07 UTC

The media-video/nvidia-kernel and media-video/nvidia-glx ebuilds use the nvidia driver package containing a load of prebuilt kernel-modules, which causes me to download 3.7 MiB of useless kernel-modules and a lot of mirrors to store the same. This is fixed by changing the line X86_PKG_V="pkg1" to X86_PKG_V="pkg0".

Notice: the only difference in the packages *are* the prebuilt binary modules.

For amd64 the pkg0 and pkg1 are similarly related, but the pkg2 has extra 32-bit compat libs. Are those really needed if a Gentoo is amd64?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Andrew Bevitt 2004-12-07 14:36:02 UTC

Yes the compatibility libraries are needed for amd64 well more specifically for app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia ; I dont think people would want to download both pkg files so the combined bigger one is better in that case.

So which package files are you suggesting we download?
For   X86 : pkg0
For AMD64 : ????

Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-05 15:56:58 UTC

Waiting for a response. Please reopen when there is one.