Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Op woensdag 9 maart 2016 21:09:32 CET schreef Carlos E. R.:
On 2016-03-09 21:02, John Andersen wrote:
Terry is not asking for the proprietary drivers to be packaged by Opensuse simply to have the process of fetching them to be automated in some way, and perhaps the need to do so detected at install time, and the offer to run the installer script presented to the user.
Again, even that is not possible for legal reasons.
It could be done, though not within the distro repos. The X11:Bumblebee repo contains the nvidia-bumblebee packages which download the NVIDIA..run installer, and use it to install the libs and make dkms handle the (re)build of the kernel modules, see https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/ X11:Bumblebee/nvidia-bumblebee/nvidia-bumblebee.spec?expand=1 . I ( and others ) have built ( build) packages that did basically nothing more than pull in the NVIDIA...run, run it with (a.o.) --dkms option, blacklist nouveau etc. Problem with this procedure was that NVIDIA had a tradition of publishing new releases of the driver that weren't tested on newer kernels ( and often needed patches that were only available some time after release of the new driver ).
But, taken in mind that all our distro and update packages have to go through openQA testing, how could we possibly test these ?
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