Nvidia packaging for Fedora

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jan 28 17:29:54 UTC 2005


Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:

>>>- updated xorg-x11 packaging to separate the Mesa GL stuff
>>>- some sort of alternatives system or post-install scripts to 
>>>  find correct provider of libGL.so.1
>>
>>This already works with the rpms.
> 
> 
> It does not. That should have been libGL.so.
> See my other mail for details.

nvidia should *not* be the provider for libGL.so, but MesaGL.  Else you 
end up with binaries that work only on/for nvidia users.

> The Mesa libGL rpms conflict with the Nvidia ones. 

No they don't.

> If they are not uninstalled I get graphical glitches and performance
> problems. The GL client and server versions differ. I suppose that's
> because they're both in the linker path

Possibly a packaging bug... but IMO, not caused by the presence of 
Mesa_GL.   again, report it:
bugzilla.livna.org

-- Rex




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