[gentoo-dev] Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[gentoo-dev] Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Dax Bunce]

Hi,

I have been having some problems with the nvidia-kernel package, and 
have posted a bug report:
<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72520>

I was wondering if anyone could tell me why all nvidia-kernel packages 
prior to nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 have been masked?

This is a problem for us because there isnt a stable nvidia-kernel 
package that runs on the 2.4.x kernel, we have a large deployment with a 
automated installer and this breaks all machines with nvidia display 
devices.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Dax

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Sven Köhler]

> I was wondering if anyone could tell me why all nvidia-kernel packages 
> prior to nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 have been masked?

Well, sometimes they do such stuff without checking the consequences it 
seems.

> This is a problem for us because there isnt a stable nvidia-kernel 
> package that runs on the 2.4.x kernel, we have a large deployment with a 
> automated installer and this breaks all machines with nvidia display 
> devices.

What kind of automated installer is this? I thought about writing one 
myself, but that might not be necessary if there is one already that i 
haven't found yet.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Stefan Schweizer]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:07:53 +0100, Sven Köhler <skoehler@upb.de> wrote:
> What kind of automated installer is this? I thought about writing one
> myself, but that might not be necessary if there is one already that i
> haven't found yet.

You could help with the gentoo-installer project, if you like writing
installers.

Dax Bunce: you can just tell your installer to 
echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

That should be possible on an automated install :)


Stefan

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Sven Köhler]

>>What kind of automated installer is this? I thought about writing one
>>myself, but that might not be necessary if there is one already that i
>>haven't found yet.
> 
> You could help with the gentoo-installer project, if you like writing
> installers.

Well, i thought that Dax was talking about something like a automated 
deployment system. I you think of a network with many systems, there 
could be a master-system that deployes the compiled packages to the 
clients. That's what i would like to write. Seperatly installing gentoo 
on many systems - even with an automated installer - is to much waste of 
CPU time - especially, if many of the system have the same hardware and 
just differ by some configuration files.


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[gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Stefan Schweizer]

You can actually build and distribute binary packages (emerge options
-b -B -k -K)

The problem is only that it is damn slow because the code insists in
scanning every package for metadata.

Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Dax Bunce]

Hi,
We do use binary packages, but some things like kernel modules are 
better created on the fly - for example when we roll out a new kernel 
and the client reboots on the new kernel it will build the appropriate 
display modules. This can be done using binary packages, but creates 
more work as new binary packages have to be created every time the 
kernel is upgraded.

We have documented the initial setup of our installer, but havent had 
time to document the maintenance side of it. It will be posted up when 
we finish the docs.

The docs that exist so far are here:
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~baz/binpkgmain/>
This goes as far as explaining the installation process only.

Cheers
Dax

Stefan Schweizer wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:07:53 +0100, Sven Köhler <skoehler@upb.de> wrote:
>  
>
>>What kind of automated installer is this? I thought about writing one
>>myself, but that might not be necessary if there is one already that i
>>haven't found yet.
>>    
>>
>
>You could help with the gentoo-installer project, if you like writing
>installers.
>
>Dax Bunce: you can just tell your installer to 
>echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>  
>
It looks like we will have to at this point! Cheers.

>That should be possible on an automated install :)
>
>
>Stefan
>
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>  
>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Dax Bunce]

Also, there is a script to manage a binary package repository, explained 
here:
<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34384>
Cheers

Dax Bunce wrote:

> Hi,
> We do use binary packages, but some things like kernel modules are 
> better created on the fly - for example when we roll out a new kernel 
> and the client reboots on the new kernel it will build the appropriate 
> display modules. This can be done using binary packages, but creates 
> more work as new binary packages have to be created every time the 
> kernel is upgraded.
>
> We have documented the initial setup of our installer, but havent had 
> time to document the maintenance side of it. It will be posted up when 
> we finish the docs.
>
> The docs that exist so far are here:
> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~baz/binpkgmain/>
> This goes as far as explaining the installation process only.
>
> Cheers
> Dax
>
> Stefan Schweizer wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:07:53 +0100, Sven Köhler <skoehler@upb.de> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> What kind of automated installer is this? I thought about writing one
>>> myself, but that might not be necessary if there is one already that i
>>> haven't found yet.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You could help with the gentoo-installer project, if you like writing
>> installers.
>>
>> Dax Bunce: you can just tell your installer to echo 
>> "media-video/nvidia-kernel -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>>  
>>
> It looks like we will have to at this point! Cheers.
>
>> That should be possible on an automated install :)
>>
>>
>> Stefan
>>
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>>
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Nvidia-kernel drivers masked....

[Andrew Bevitt]

Dax Bunce wrote:
> I have been having some problems with the nvidia-kernel package, 
> <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72520>

See comment 3 on the bug report.

Andrew

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