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Bug 741562 - nVidia optix library for e.g. blender (new package)
Summary: nVidia optix library for e.g. blender (new package)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
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Keywords: EBUILD, PullRequest
Depends on:
Blocks: 741564
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Reported: 2020-09-11 01:34 UTC by Richard Ostrow
Modified: 2022-08-31 09:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
optix version 7.0.0 ebuild (optix-7.0.0.ebuild,749 bytes, text/plain)
2020-09-11 01:34 UTC, Richard Ostrow
Details
optix version 7.1.0 ebuild (optix-7.1.0.ebuild,756 bytes, text/plain)
2020-09-11 01:35 UTC, Richard Ostrow
Details

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Description Richard Ostrow 2020-09-11 01:34:39 UTC
Created attachment 659448 [details]
optix version 7.0.0 ebuild

Optix allows real-time raytracing support for nVidia RTX cards, and can be used by >=media-gfx/blender-2.8 to accelerate rendering cycles as an alternative to CUDA. Attached ebuild was sourced and modified from the science overlay (submitted pull request to add to overlay already), which only offered version 6.0.0. nVidia currently offers 7.1.0 or 6.5.0 as the latest supported versions as of this writing, but still stores the older versions. This has been tested as working on my local system.

Note that fetch restrictions are turned on - you need to sign up for an nVidia developer account to actually get the library.
Comment 1 Richard Ostrow 2020-09-11 01:35:20 UTC
Created attachment 659450 [details]
optix version 7.1.0 ebuild
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-08-31 09:58:09 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=175fb5f846f586fd7c198f3a35247cb5f893a5c8

commit 175fb5f846f586fd7c198f3a35247cb5f893a5c8
Author:     Bernd Waibel <waebbl-gentoo@posteo.net>
AuthorDate: 2022-03-27 09:56:19 +0000
Commit:     Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-08-31 09:53:54 +0000

    dev-libs/optix: new package, v7.4.0
    
    Copied from ::sci and adapted
    Package being included for use by media-gfx/blender
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/741564
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/741562
    Signed-off-by: Bernd Waibel <waebbl-gentoo@posteo.net>
    Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>

 dev-libs/optix/Manifest           | 16 ++++++++
 dev-libs/optix/metadata.xml       | 24 ++++++++++++
 dev-libs/optix/optix-7.4.0.ebuild | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 120 insertions(+)