Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-10-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:02:30PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > am Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:47:21AM +0200 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > nvidia-cg-toolkit > > nvidia-cuda-toolkit > > nvidia-graphics-drivers > > nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-173xx > > nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx > > nvid

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-10-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 03:57:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [ providing prebuilt modules ] > I'm not sure if that work is a strong argument against doing this. The kernel team does not seem to be overly happy, especially given the fact that it's the last package to do so. But there was only one

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:03:16PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Copying debian-release@ and debian-kernel@ on what they think. To provide > context (it seems that pkg-nvidia-devel@ dropped my mails or put it into a > queue, hence they're not in a list archive): nvidia-graphics-modules seems to > be

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Beckmann writes: > There are a few people that don't like the dkms way (to many > dependencies: compiler, kernel headers; leaves cruft around (I tried to > fix a bit of this in my dkms NMU); ) and prefer to take the > responsibility to provide their own kernel module packages for local >

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > I'm a bit confused why that is. If I'm installing a > nvidia-graphics-driver package that does all the magic using dkms at > install time, how is that more sophisticated than providing pre-built > module packages, especially in the light that it's the only one left > doing

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-08-06 19:32, Ben Hutchings wrote: > There is actually no attempt to check or maintain ABI stability for > packages with the rt featureset (or openvz or vserver, in squeeze), as > their stable updates have been comparatively less stable. This fact > hasn't been advertised nearly as widely a

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
I'm afraid, this is getting a bit off-topic ... On 2012-08-06 23:28, Philipp Kern wrote: > I'm a bit confused why that is. If I'm installing a nvidia-graphics-driver > package that does all the magic using dkms at install time, how is that more > sophisticated than providing pre-built module packa

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Philipp Kern
Hey Russ, On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:42:41AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sorry, they're all approved now. thank you. > > nvidia-graphics-modules seems to be the last package to provide > > pre-built kernel modules. Do we still want this for wheezy given the > > maintenance hassle if there's an

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > Copying debian-release@ and debian-kernel@ on what they think. To > provide context (it seems that pkg-nvidia-devel@ dropped my mails or put > it into a queue, hence they're not in a list archive): Sorry, they're all approved now. We get unbelievable amounts of spam, so t

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:03:16PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 06:49:11PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > On 2012-08-06 17:07, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > I gathered. That doesn't answer my point, though. It is the *last* package > > > in the archive doing so, instead of u

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 06:49:11PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2012-08-06 17:07, Philipp Kern wrote: > > I gathered. That doesn't answer my point, though. It is the *last* package > > in the archive doing so, instead of using dkms. > There is nvidia-kernel-dkms, too. But for historic reason