On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:42:08PM -0000, B.Weber@warwick.ac.uk wrote:
Honestly only the kernel update process (KMP packages) can avoid this problem. I prevented this problem before SLE10 by uninstalling the driver in %pre of the affected packages, but I needed to remove this workaround for the KMP approach for SLE10. :-(
KMPs would of course be ideal. But it seems we won't have them for openSUSE. There is much rumour and speculation as to why this is, It would be nice if someone could give a definitive statement. If I understand correctly the situation for SLE10:
-Novell build the packages (from rpm vendor, build host, packager,author) -Novell don't want to risk hosting them as they violate the GPL so ask nvidia to host them. -Nvidia happily host them and take legal risk of being sued by kernel developers.
It would be nice if someone could clarify what is different for openSUSE, has anyone from novell even bothered to ask nvidia to host packages for openSUSE? Have nvidia refused? why? or does Novell/SUSE not want non-gpl kernel modules to be available anywhere for openSUSE, but think it's ok for SLE for some reason?
No-one seems to know the answers, so a statement from someone would be appreciated.
Last time I tried to push this issue was not really successful. :-( Read the results in Bug #206956. I suggest to take the SRPMs I've attached to this bugreport and host them somewhere, e.g. packman. I would like to host them via the openSUSE buildservice (since the driver itself is marked as NoSource anyway), but unfortunately it's not possible to specify to only build the SRPM. :-( Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org