[pkg-nvidia-devel] some patches for nvidia-graphics-drivers

[Russ Allbery]

Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp at gmail.com> writes:

> The first is geared to automatically download the original file from the
> Nvidia ftp site, the first time that is compiled.

I haven't taken a detailed look at the patch, but please note that
building a Debian package cannot require the Internet be available.  We
need to include everything required in the source package.

> also because the kernel-source packages depend on the architecture, it 
> includes only the corresponding module.

This won't work for i386, since we need to build kernel modules for the
amd64 kernel on the i386 architecture.

> The second patch changes the working directory "NVIDIA-Linux" by
> "debian/tmp", so the "Install" instructions.should not refer to any
> directory. But instead the instructions "docs, changelogs and examples"
> continue needing the full path to the files.

I think because of the need for both architectures on i386 this won't
work, but I'll have to look at the patch in more detail to be sure.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>