Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding why portage wants to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk

2013-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 18:06:36 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2 Why does the atom ~dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2 NOT apply to dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2.9-r2? It applies to version 4.2 and all revisions. 4.2.9 is a different version You need one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding why portage wants to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk

2013-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/07/2013 10:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 18:06:36 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2 Why does the atom ~dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2 NOT apply to dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-4.2.9-r2? It applies to version 4.2 and all revisions. 4.2.9 is a different

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding why portage wants to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You probably already spotted this but just in case stable sdk is v2.02.0807.1535 stable toolkit is 4.2.9-r2 Alan, I did not notice that. Thank you, it all makes sense now! Chris

[gentoo-user] Understanding why portage wants to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, I'm particularly paranoid about my CUDA setup. I do not understand CUDA except enough to declare that if my machine has CUDA 4.2 installed my life will be easy. This is because I compile software that supposedly needs CUDA 4.2. Can someone please translate the emerge -Dauv snip below

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding why portage wants to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk

2013-07-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/07/2013 23:18, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, I'm particularly paranoid about my CUDA setup. I do not understand CUDA except enough to declare that if my machine has CUDA 4.2 installed my life will be easy. This is because I compile software that supposedly needs CUDA 4.2. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding why portage wants to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/07/2013 23:18, Chris Stankevitz wrote: It says it's going to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk,but it doesn't say why. For that: $ eix dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk * dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk Available versions: