RFT: update nvidia-glx packages for FC4 in livna

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Aug 24 17:52:26 UTC 2005


Am Montag, den 22.08.2005, 14:28 -0400 schrieb Neal Becker:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> > I did a major update of the nvidia-glx packages for livna.org. The new
> > packages are available at:

They are now published.

> I really appreciate your efforts here.  Your nvidia packages are the only
> sane ones around, IMHO.

The major work was done by Peter Backlund. I just took over the
maintainership.

>   Just one issue though.  When nightly yum run
> automatically installs an updated kernel, it doesn't automatically update
> the nvidia kernel mod.  I always have to manually figure out the correct
> name and run yum install.

This is a chicken and egg problem when it comes to yum and co. Current
yum versions handle kernel-module-foo packages much better then in the
past, but there are still issues that forces us to do it this way. We're
working towards a better solution in the future.

-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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