No. My workflow is, yum update (installing new kernel). No reboot, cd into SPEC directory, rpmbuild -bb kmod.nvidia.spec, cd into RPMS/x86_64 (or i686 if that is your arch) and yum localinstall kmod-...., then reboot.
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ra@hamburger ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release > Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) > > [ra@hamburger ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia > kmod-nvidia-3.9.2-200.fc18.x86_64-319.17-1.fc18.1.x86_64 > nvidia-xconfig-1.0-27.fc18.x86_64 > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-319.17-1.fc18.x86_64 > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-319.17-1.fc18.x86_64 > nvidia-settings-1.0-31.fc18.x86_64 > kmod-nvidia-3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64-319.17-1.fc18.1.x86_64 > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-319.17-1.fc18.i686 > kmod-nvidia-319.17-1.fc18.1.x86_64 > nvidia-settings-desktop-1.0-31.fc18.x86_64 > > I managed to build the srpm's without much issue (and without changing > anything). I did have issues installing the resulting rpm's but I solved > that by removing the old nvidia software. > > My only remaining problem is when new kernels are released in updates. I > have to boot the new kernel to runlevel 3 and rebuild the kmod again. But > Im sure there is a much better way to do that :) > > > > > -- > Rikki > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "George Galt" <[email protected]> > > To: "RPM Fusion users discussion list" < > [email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, 29 May, 2013 3:07:23 PM > > Subject: Re: nvidia drivers > > > > > > > > I have been building the 310 driver for F18 for quite some time. It > > works well and builds easily. You can information on how to build it > > here: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2617 > > > > I also have built the 313 drivers successfully, but haven't tried > > installing them. I did try building the 319 drivers, which built but > > failed on the install. It appears that there are some issues with > > the 3.9 kernel (perhaps??, not sure). > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Sérgio Basto < [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Qui, 2013-05-23 at 23:27 +0000, Richard Allen wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Sérgio Basto" < [email protected] > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Sent: Thursday, 23 May, 2013 2:17:21 AM > > > > Subject: Re: nvidia drivers > > > > > > > > On Qui, 2013-05-23 at 01:25 +0000, Richard Allen wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > > > I'm wondering what is going on with the nvidia drivers lately. > > > > > For some reason we seem to be stuck at 304.XX and have been for > > > > > a rather long time. On nvidia.com the current release is > > > > > 319.17. > > > > > Reading changelogs, there are lots of items I would love to see > > > > > on > > > > > my box. Hence my question. > > > > > Why are there new newer packages for the nvidia drivers? > > > > > > > > We have new drivers but just for F19, because before they was > > > > beta . > > > > > > Hi Sérgio, > > > > > > Is there a proceedure I can use to build the f19 srpm's for f18? Or > > > is it just a simple rpmbuild --rebuild ? > > > > rpmbuild --rebuild works ... , but if you have 64 bits you might have > > to > > build for i686 also which is not easy with rpmbuild, so for this > > reason > > and others, I prefer use mock: > > mock -r fedora-18-x86_64-rpmfusion_nonfree --rebuild src.rpm > > and > > mock -r fedora-18-i386-rpmfusion_nonfree --rebuild src.rpm > > > > you need install mock and configure it > > http://www.serjux.com/alps/how_to_use_mock.txt > > > > and also install from rpmfusion > > > > mock-rpmfusion-free-19.0-1.fc18.noarch > > mock-rpmfusion-nonfree-19.0-1.fc18.noarch > > > > to have mock config files for fedora-18-x86_64-rpmfusion_nonfree. > > > > Go luck :) > > -- > > Sérgio M. B. > > > > >
