No Livna nvidia-glx v7167 rpm for i686

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Mark Hoecker wrote:

> The latest NVidia GLX 7167 FC3 RPMs from Livna come
> only for i586 architecture.  Previously, the driver
> was available for both i586 and i686.  I'm able to
> install the i586 RPM (along with the
> kernel-module-nvidia driver RPM of the same version)
> but it is incompatible with the i686 kernel I'm
> running.
>
> [...]
>
> Is there a reason Livna is not supplying the i686 RPM?
> I haven't noticed any mention of this in recent
> posts.  Should this be entered as a bug?  I've come to
> rely on Livna for hassle-free NVidia driver support
> and I'm not interested in recompiling NVidia's
> incremental driver updates.  Please advise.

It looks like a bug to me.

My workaround was to grab the SRPM and rebuild it with "rpmbuild --rebuild 
--target i686" and it builds and installs with no problem.

I didn't file the bug, so go ahead.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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