2008/2/10, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok guys, > > I've been talking to the AMD/ATI guys about getting ArchLinux packages > bundled with their catalyst releases, and was told something > interesting - apparently, the driver (kernel/Xorg) is independent of > the catalyst release, and is still versioned the "old way" - for > example, we used to have "fglrx 8.45.4" or whatever, and I changed it > to "catalyst YY.MM" when AMD started releasing their linux drivers as > 'catalyst'. The thing with this is, there may be special versions of > the driver between catalyst releases for certain vendors, for example > - so catalyst 8.01 may have driver (fglrx) version 8.45.5, but then > they release a special version for laptop X that's 8.45.6, and isn't a > catalyst release, as it's geared to the specific laptop's hardware. > > So, basically, I jumped the gun renaming fglrx to catalyst, as (in > general) it makes more sense to keep versioning it the old way (which, > at the time, I thought was going away, and was mistaken). > > So, what I'm wondering is, should I re-rename the packages back to > fglrx? Leave them catalyst, and ignore any special versions that may, > at some point in the future, come out? Re-rename them to something > other than 'fglrx' to indicate they're the Radeon Proprietary drivers? > I'm not sure how to handle this, and suggestions are more than > welcome. > > I asked the ATI guys the same thing, and they said they'd prefer to > have some 'meta-package' called catalyst that depends on the > appropriate fglrx-* packages, which I don't really like, because then > the 'catalyst' package is an empty package, used only for the deps it > pulls in. > > Thoughts? >
I don't mind renaming them back to fglrx again. *shrugs* For extra-special versions - I doubt they will ever be in our repo. Meta-package is definetely a bad idea, we've got rid of most of them (except xorg-clients). Does the decission to include Arch support in the official catalyst depends on our packaging scheme? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
