nvidia drivers

[KH KH]

2008/10/30 KH KH <kwizart at gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/29 John5342 <john5342 at googlemail.com>:
>> I assume then that the 177 series for f8 and f9 are going to have a new name
>> which if my thinking is correct they wont be automatically installed when
>> they first become available. Will there be any kind of announcement when
>> they are ready or is there a package name i can look out for? I understand
>> completely that these things take as long as they take but i wouldn't want
>> to miss the package when it does arrive.
> That's should be the primary plan that I've described previously.
> In the non parallel installable world, the differents excludes
> themselves. That means, if you want to have
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-newest, you will first have to uninstall all , and
> then to install kmod-nvidia-newest.
>
> Since i'm working more on the new scheme, I miss to have some time for
> this task.
> I will work on this will no delay along with the 71xx rename.
Well at least the full featured plan was to Obsoletes/Provides
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia and nvidia-kmod in F-9 to
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx and the related kmod-nvidia-173xx. and then
introduce xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-newest along with
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-beta if needed.
That way, users that will upgrade from F-9 to F-10 will revert back
from xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-newest to xorg-x11-drv-nvidia which will be
177.80 by default on F-10 (whereas 173.14.12 on F-9). users of 173xx
will then follow the 173xx branch, and if it will be possible for them
to use 177.80, that will requires manual uninstall/re-install of the
right nvidia drivers.

Now I remember that the problem raised by Thorsten was about the
Obsoltes/Provides of the kmod.
The current plan to have this problem solved is to introduce the
parallele scheme. But that's not ready and QA yet.
Anyway we can still introduce the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-newest in the
old scheme with 177.80 and F-9.
That's definitely needed specially for KDE users that will have
specifics fixes, I don't think we can wait until F-10 for theses
features.

For the 71xx serie rename, the same problem appear, but i really think
we should avoid the legacy name and switch to the new name
without waiting for the new 71xx driver...

Nicolas (kwizart)