Re: [ATrpms-users] Building nvidia 310 driver for Fedora 16 x86_64

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:18 AM, George Galt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Paulo:
>
> Thanks.  I've installed it and it seems to be working (FYI, I'm still on
> FC16 x86_64, for anyone who is wondering if it works on that distribution).
>
> On addressing the conflict, I'm not sure that same filtering will work,
> but simply adding a rm -f {path}/nvidia-cuda-proxy to the pre-install macro
> might work.  The only problem is that there is no recovery if the rest of
> the install fails.  I suppose you could move it to a nividia-cuda-proxy.old
> file and alert the user as a recoverable alternative, but that might create
> other issues.  I'm just not experienced enough with building RPMs to know
> which would be the best course.
>
> Thanks for all of your work on this driver.  Hopefully I can be of more
> help in the future.


If this file is to be contained in each versioned set of RPMs, maybe it
should be renamed and versioned as the kmdl is and have a symlink changed
with nvidia-graphics-switch.

/Brian/