[Bug 459] Review request: cudatoolkit - NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459 --- Comment #16 from Milos Jakubicek <xjakub(a)fi.muni.cz&gt; 2009-08-26 23:55:06 --- Hi Nicolas, (In reply to comment #14) I have spent some time considering all these multi*install issues and came to these conclusions: We have to distinguish between the cuda compiler and the libraries. While the compiled should and could go into the location compliant with FHS (will modify so), the libraries need more adjustment: I'm currently really not sure whether it is worth making multiple CUDA version parallel installable -- I've found an official nvidia document stating that CUDA *is* backward compatible [1], so we could just keep shipping the highest CUDA version that will run with the nvidia driver present in current rpmfusions repositories (currently, we could ship cuda 2.2). The other (much more complicated and imo not worth doing it) choice is: Ship all or almost all cuda versions from the same package (named "cuda-[version]"), the highest one compliant with current rpmfusions nvidia driver could have "Provides: cuda". Using alternatives is not enough, we have to ensure that the libraries will be found by the linker, so the proper solution would be to use environmental modules [2]. What is your opinion about this? Do you find it worth shipping more cuda versions or not? (actually, in case we'd support the multiple versions, I'd ship all of them then). [1] http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/2_3/toolkit/docs/NVIDIA... [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/EnvironmentModules -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.