Difficulties testing the new nouveau driver

[drago01]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> As some of you may know I've been packaging and testing nouveau (the
> free NVIDIA 3D driver) for some time. The current way the driver is
> packaged is making things very difficult to properly test on fedora:
>
> * The xf86-video-nv-2.1.5.tar.bz2 and nouveau-gitID.tar.gz are included
> in the xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.5 srpm.
> * This srpm spits out xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.5 and
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.5 rpm files when built.
>
> This poses me problems as:
>
> * I can't easily keep the original nv rpm intact when building the new
> nouveau
> * The upstream version of nouveau ddx is 1.2.0, and the rpm version is
> 2.1.5
> * I can't uninstall the xorg-x11-drv-nv driver to test nouveau from
> source without nuking the nv driver too.
>
> I understand that one day the nouveau ddx will replace the nv ddx, but
> this can be accomplished with standard rpm obsoletes rather than
> shipping the nouveau source in the nv srpm. For me, I think the proper
> way of doing this would be to:
>
> * Have a nouveau srpm *and* a nv srpm - they are different codebases and
> have different version numbers
>   
+1 I see no reason why they should be in the same srpm.