On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 20:21 +0100, Javier Rodas wrote:
> 2006/11/3, Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 15:58 +0100, Javier Rodas wrote:
> >
> > > If you only copy the drivers, and the dkms packages, not the
> > > 'driver'-kernel-xxxx packages, I don't see where would appear the
> > > dependency problems.
> > > With dkms the drivers should compile well if the kernel-source or
> > > kernel-source-stripped is installed, don't you think ?
> > >
> > > Maybe I am wrong, what are your opinion about it ?
> >
> > Well, for instance, I don't think you could use the 2006 NVIDIA driver
> > very successfully on 2007 (or vice versa) because of the rearrangement
> > of X.org that happened during the 2007 cycle. The dkms-nvidia package
> > would likely be fine but I think the nvidia package would have problems.
> > If something like that were to happen during the cycle for the next
> > release, the Cooker package might stop working on 2007.
> 
> I know, but I'm only saying to copy the CURRENT non-free drivers from
> cooker now, to make this mixied ISO version of Mandriva 2007+PLF,
> because cooker and the official 2007.0 version are very similar at
> this moment.

OK, yeah, in this specific case, you're correct.
-- 
adamw

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