[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 3/13/21 4:32 PM, John D Groenveld wrote:
> In message <d3964437-8497-64ca-13ab-c059aa735197 at oracle.com>, Alan Coopersmith writes:
>> There is no way to script this inside IPS packages - instead your script
>> would have to be outside the packaging system and run pkg commands to
>> install/uninstall the packages as neto.
> 
> Did Oracle consider using a mediator to set the system's nVidia version
> branch?
> <URL:http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/manifest/0/driver%2Fgraphics%2FnvidiaR304@0.304.137.0%2C5.11-11.4.0.0.1.1.0%3A20180226T183047Z>
> <URL:http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/manifest/0/driver%2Fgraphics%2FnvidiaR340@0.340.104.0%2C5.11-11.4.0.0.1.1.0%3A20180226T183049Z>

Considered and rejected as nvidia's design doesn't allow multiple versions to be
installed on the system at the same time to mediate between.

	-alan-