NVidia RPMs from Dell (Re: Wish list)

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 19:57 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On 6/5/05, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> > John Hull from Dell has packaged up the NVidia drivers that we release
> > for our Precision workstations, using DKMS.
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.dell.com/video/
> >  dell-nvidia-7167-5dkms.src.rpm
> >  dell-nvidia-7167-multiarch-5.tar.gz
> 
> Hmm... well, I'm not an expert or anything, but doing this in %post is
> probably sub-.. er... optimal. :)
> 
> #Remove existing GL libraries
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.* > /dev/null 2>&1
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.* > /dev/null 2>&1
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a > /dev/null 2>&1
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.* > /dev/null 2>&1
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/extensions/libGLcore.* > /dev/null 2>&1
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/extensions/libglx.a > /dev/null 2>&1

John should look at how livna packages the nvidia drivers (enabling one
to install it cleanly along the normal GL libraries), the above is just
tasteless ;-).

Nils
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