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 _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
