gentoo nvidia ebuilds?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:33 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005, 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.
> 
> I grepped /usr/portage for nvidia and got nothing.
> 
> >
> > OTOH, my gentoo system (no emerge sync for at least 3 months) has
> > nothing beyond 6629-r5.
> 
> That's the only version i can find too.  :(

Perhaps, given your new employ, you would make a great Gentoo ebuild
maintainer for nvidia! I think the current nvidia ebuild is sporadic.

Still, I think it is a very easy ebuild to copy locally (portage allows
local ebuilds that syncing leave alone). Then you could emerge what ever
you want. The only change  (beyond bumping the version) to the ebuild is
when nvidia or the rest of Gentoo change something related to install. I
think it takes about 93 seconds to clone an existing ebuild abd bump the
version number.

I look forward to keeping up with newer nvidia drivers!