BuildID and proprietary (graphics) drivers

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 19 18:04:46 UTC 2007


On 8/19/07, Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I know this isn't technically Fedora's problem since binary-only drivers
> are on the ForbiddenItems, but I have been trying to get the nVidia and
> ATi proprietary to build for the devel/ branch at Livna and there's a
> problem with the BuildID.
>
> rpmbuild fails because it can't find the BuildID in various files, but
> how can a BuildID be added to a binary-only file? An example is
> ATi's /usr/sbin/atieventd, which is a binary executable and there's no
> place to run `gcc -shared` on it since it's already compiled.
>
> I think this isn't just a graphic driver specific issue but one for all
> binary-only drivers. It's a perfect example of why they should be
> avoided, but it's going to be a big problem is _nobody_ can provide
> binary drivers for F8 because of missing BuildIDs.


is they a way to just not use a buildid? they are used for debugging and we
can't debug binary only stuff anyway.
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