Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-03-05 Thread Phil Perry
On 04/03/13 23:07, Lamar Owen wrote: Updated to CentOS 6.4 via CentOS-CR, rebooted, and it's still working fine. Thanks. Incidentally, and it's probably something you can't control, the output line telling that this might take a while doesn't get output until it's done. minor thing

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-02-07 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 02/07/2013 05:23 AM, Phil Perry wrote: On 02/02/13 14:06, Lamar Owen wrote: On 01/30/2013 08:12 AM, Phil Perry wrote: I may have jumped the gun here somewhat. Managing the kernel module is probably the easy part. I forgot about the hard part, and that is managing the many linked X11

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-02-06 Thread Phil Perry
On 02/02/13 14:06, Lamar Owen wrote: On 01/30/2013 08:12 AM, Phil Perry wrote: I may have jumped the gun here somewhat. Managing the kernel module is probably the easy part. I forgot about the hard part, and that is managing the many linked X11 libraries that are also version-specific. Ok,

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Phil Perry
On 29/01/13 19:54, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Le 28/01/2013 23:52, Nux! a écrit : On 28.01.2013 21:26, Lamar Owen wrote: The pipe-dream, and a 'better than Windows' experience, is a single package set that covers all legacy versions plus the current version and leverages udev to load the

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Nux!
On 30.01.2013 11:37, Phil Perry wrote: My initial thought would be to install all 4 modules in the form of nvidia-current.ko, nvidia-304.ko etc, and then to use a script to detect the current hardware, select the correct driver and copy that driver into place, and finally running depmod. The

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Phil Perry wrote: On 29/01/13 19:54, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Le 28/01/2013 23:52, Nux! a écrit : On 28.01.2013 21:26, Lamar Owen wrote: The pipe-dream, and a 'better than Windows' experience, is a single package set that covers all legacy versions plus the current version and leverages

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Phil Perry
On 28/01/13 21:26, Lamar Owen wrote: On 01/28/2013 02:54 PM, Phil Perry wrote: On 25/01/13 23:13, Lamar Owen wrote: On Jan 25, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Nux! wrote: - why not in cases like this send a Requires for some noarch that executes a script and does a yum replace[1] based on pci id? How

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Phil Perry
On 30/01/13 12:42, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Phil Perry wrote: On 29/01/13 19:54, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Le 28/01/2013 23:52, Nux! a écrit : On 28.01.2013 21:26, Lamar Owen wrote: The pipe-dream, and a 'better than Windows' experience, is a single package set that covers all legacy

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 01/30/2013 03:50 PM, Phil Perry wrote: On 30/01/13 12:49, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: ok, so most of the package updates will happen when the current driver gets updated. This mitigates the (slight) issue, but only for people with modern hardware

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Phil Perry
On 30/01/13 15:53, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 01/30/2013 03:50 PM, Phil Perry wrote: I have no idea if you can call 'yum' from within a yum transaction, but I very much doubt it as the rpm database has to be locked during the transaction. You can't. Just like you cannot invoke rpm from rpm

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On 01/30/2013 09:08 AM, Phil Perry wrote: We could create a set of dummy packages specific for hardware classes. For example, nvidia-6xxx nvidia-7xxx ... etc and then somehow figure out a way to get the correct hardware-specific dummy package onto users systems (that's the tricky part).

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-29 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Le 28/01/2013 23:52, Nux! a écrit : On 28.01.2013 21:26, Lamar Owen wrote: The pipe-dream, and a 'better than Windows' experience, is a single package set that covers all legacy versions plus the current version and leverages udev to load the right bits at boot time. I have no clue how

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-28 Thread Phil Perry
On 25/01/13 23:13, Lamar Owen wrote: On Jan 25, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Nux! wrote: - why not in cases like this send a Requires for some noarch that executes a script and does a yum replace[1] based on pci id? How does that sound? [1] -

Re: [elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-28 Thread Nux!
On 28.01.2013 21:26, Lamar Owen wrote: The pipe-dream, and a 'better than Windows' experience, is a single package set that covers all legacy versions plus the current version and leverages udev to load the right bits at boot time. I have no clue how difficult that would be to implement, other

[elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

2013-01-25 Thread Nux!
Hi guys, I just read the SL mailing list thread about the nvidia driver issue; here's an idea: - why not in cases like this send a Requires for some noarch that executes a script and does a yum replace[1] based on pci id? How does that sound? [1] -