[OpenIndiana-discuss] IPS packaging of different NVIDIA drivers

[Gabriele Bulfon]

Thanks Alan,
yes I understand that overwriting an IPS pkg with a pkgadd may be cumbersome, but
you know, it's a test machine ;) I just had to check if they would have worked.
So, if nvidia implemented them like that, isn't there any possible IPS solution?
For example:
- as for the kernel drivers, wouldn't be sufficient to rename them like nvidia340?
Then just add driver_aliases for the missing cards to this new name?
- I didn't check if the remaining files (libs and so on) are actually the same
or compatible on various installer.
Maybe the latest OpenGL libs may be good for legacy drivers too?
In this case I may package libs in a separate package, and create pkgs just for
different drivers, with deps on libs pkg?
At last.........maybe you can have more influence on nvidia to let them give us more
fine grained drivers that we can package?? ;)
Gabriele
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Data: 5 gennaio 2014 19.23.00 CET
Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPS packaging of different NVIDIA drivers
On 01/ 5/14 04:27 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
I had to download a legacy package from NVIDIA, and force a pkgadd install of the package over the original
preinstalled.
https://java.net/projects/solaris-x11/pages/NvidiaInstallation is the
suggested method for removing the IPS packages and installing the
downloaded ones - if you don't remove the IPS packages first, then
pkg update or fix could splatter the IPS packaged bits back on top of
the SVR4 ones you installed.
It would be useful to have them preinstalled side by side, but naming conflicts are an issue:
- I would have to rename kernel drivers and conf files
Right, the way nvidia has implemented the drivers, you can only have
one version installed at a time.
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