Re: nouveau driver one centos 6

[John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes.
>>
>> Why puzzled?  I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of
>> dependencies as a way of cleaning up the dependency chain.
>
> Ok, I didn't rpm -ql to see what was in it, but as it listed as empty...
> and why wouldn't the driver rpm have the dependencies in it?

The driver rpm depends on all the specific driver RPMs.  The 0 byte figure is
because the driver RPM contains no files.  But it means your kickstart (and
the default install groups) can have xorg-x11-drv and doesn't need to be
updated everytime they add a new driver (which'd be pretty annoying).

jh
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