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From: »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 19:45:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130824194527.122b5436@fuchsia.remarqs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52186597.6030407@gmail.com

On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:49:43 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/08/2013 06:26, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:  
> >> It looks like maybe the best way to tell which ebuilds support
> >> which kernels is to read the conditional for the ewarn message in
> >> each ebuild.  
> > 
> > If this sort of problem spreads it might be good to build into
> > portage some kind of blocker/keyword mechanism so that users need
> > not deal with this.... not that I have any appreciation for the
> > work involved.  
> 
> Those tools already exist.
> 
> Blockers, which do not really apply here;

In a comment on the bug (which is full of bugspam), someone suggested
blocking kernels which are incompatible with the currently-installed
nvidia-drivers.  I'm glad that idea was dismissed.

> elog messages

Those elog messages are presented after compiling a new kernel and then
trying and failing to compile nvidia-drivers.  So now I grep the
nvidia-drivers ebuilds for the messages before I compile a new kernel.

A wiki page with info about which nvidia-drivers will build against
which kernels would be a nice thing to have.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-25  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23 17:45 [gentoo-user] The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet? Chris Stankevitz
2013-08-23 18:09 ` Randy Westlund
2013-08-23 22:15   ` Paul Klos
2013-08-24  4:12     ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2013-08-24  4:26       ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-08-24  7:49         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-25  0:45           ` »Q« [this message]
2013-08-25 16:18             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-25 16:34               ` Mick
2013-08-25 20:00                 ` hasufell
2013-08-25 20:16                   ` Dale
2013-08-25 20:06                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-26  1:52               ` »Q«
2013-08-26  6:02                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27  2:06                   ` »Q«
2013-08-27  5:57                     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27  7:14                       ` Pandu Poluan
2013-08-27  7:38                         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-28  1:41                       ` »Q«
2013-08-31  1:40       ` »Q«

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