gentoo nvidia ebuilds?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 20:46 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 5/12/05, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > Do any of you gentoo fans know if there are any gentoo ebuilds of the
> > nvidia driver beyond 1.0-6629?  All i'm finding is 6629 which isn't
> > helping me, and trying to install the 'official' nvidia package is blowing
> > up with conflicting library warnings.
> > 
> 
> You may need to look at the ~x86 ebuilds. Search /usr/portage for the
> nvidia ebuilds. Gentoo isn't very agressive in marking the nvidia
> builds stable.
> 
> OTOH, my gentoo system (no emerge sync for at least 3 months) has
> nothing beyond 6629-r5.

3 months! Be careful. I had a diskless setup (that I cloned over and
over) that was OK, so I did not sync. When I finally wanted to, I found
that I could not because so many things had changed in the ebuild
layout. I eventually did a new diskless layout. Which I now sync
regularly.

I am not sure it is the actual emerge of the packages that is critical.
Just the syncing.

I did not try just getting a new portage tree when syncing blew up. That
would have been too smart...