As some of you may know I've been packaging and testing nouveau (the free NVIDIA 3D driver) for some time. The current way the driver is packaged is making things very difficult to properly test on fedora: * The xf86-video-nv-2.1.5.tar.bz2 and nouveau-gitID.tar.gz are included in the xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.5 srpm. * This srpm spits out xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.5 and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.5 rpm files when built. This poses me problems as: * I can't easily keep the original nv rpm intact when building the new nouveau * The upstream version of nouveau ddx is 1.2.0, and the rpm version is 2.1.5 * I can't uninstall the xorg-x11-drv-nv driver to test nouveau from source without nuking the nv driver too. I understand that one day the nouveau ddx will replace the nv ddx, but this can be accomplished with standard rpm obsoletes rather than shipping the nouveau source in the nv srpm. For me, I think the proper way of doing this would be to: * Have a nouveau srpm *and* a nv srpm - they are different codebases and have different version numbers * Somehow fix the brokenness that has lead to the version number xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.5 being installed when actually installed was xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.2.0 Ideas welcome. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
