[Bug 122] Review Request: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx - NVIDIA's 173xx proprietary display driver for NVIDIA graphic cards

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http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122





--- Comment #6 from Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>  2008-11-07 11:47:36 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> We need them in F-8/F-9 too. that's because of the upgrade path needed when
> F-8/F-9 users will have to upgrade to F-10.

I'd be glad if you could outline your exact plan a bit more detailed, as it
would help me to understand things better (maybe I got something wrong). 

Nevertheless: Whatever you do now can also be done during the update to F-10
itself. I think that's the way better point in time to do it, as the whole plan
(as far as I got it) seem quite risky to me for the F8/F-9 branches

> We cannot just leave the users crash their Xorg,
> with a "broken by design" upgrade path.

Sometimes there are cases where manually intervention by the user is required
-- this afaics is one of those (¹), as the user sooner of later needs to
decide to use either the 173 drivers or the newer ones. The F10 release seems
like the right point of time to let the users with old GeForce hardware decide.

(¹) at least until the parallel installable stuff is in place

> Once that said, I agree that there is a problem with Obsoletes/Provides of
> kmod/akmod, specially as even if the old kmod/akmod get properly uninstalled
> (with only Obsoltes/Provides on xorg-x11-drv-nvidia), the appropriate module
> (either akmod/kmod-nvidia-173xx-PAE) would not be installed in the "not common
> case". (I expect kmod-nvidia-173xx to be installed because of shortest name
> rule).

Yes, that's round about the problem afaics.

> This problem will need to be fixed before the packages hit the stable
> repository (if ever it does).

Nope, it needs to be fixed before the packages hit testing, as otherwise
testing users run might into the problem and are hence later are not able to
test the proper solution later :-/


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