Difficulties testing the new nouveau driver

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Wed Jan 2 15:46:30 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:15 +0100, Andreas Bierfert wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:03:19 +0000
> Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > * Have a nouveau srpm *and* a nv srpm - they are different codebases and
> > have different version numbers
> > * Somehow fix the brokenness that has lead to the version number
> > xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.5 being installed when actually installed was
> > xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.2.0
> 
> This seems like the right thing to do. To resolve the version problems you
> probably have to bump the epoch on nouveau and imho this situation is a valid
> reason to do so.

Fine with me.  Wish I'd noticed the version number skew earlier.

- ajax




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