Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 3/31/20 1:31 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em março 31, 2020 14:03 Eli Schwartz via arch-general escreveu: >> >> See the broadcom-wl PKGBUILD for how to avoid this. Also note the >> wireguard-{arch,lts} packages have adopted this method. >> >> It's up to Sven-Hendrik Haase if he wants to do t

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em março 31, 2020 14:03 Eli Schwartz via arch-general escreveu: See the broadcom-wl PKGBUILD for how to avoid this. Also note the wireguard-{arch,lts} packages have adopted this method. It's up to Sven-Hendrik Haase if he wants to do this, though. Well, the best way to avoid this is a comple

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 3/31/20 12:54 PM, Chris Billington via arch-general wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:48 PM Amin Vakil wrote: > >> >> So why should nvidia-dkms upgrades? >> > > it's because nvidia-dkms is part of a split package that builds both nvidia > and nvidia-dkms. The bump in pkgrel is to rebuild nv

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Chris Billington via arch-general
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:48 PM Amin Vakil wrote: > > So why should nvidia-dkms upgrades? > it's because nvidia-dkms is part of a split package that builds both nvidia and nvidia-dkms. The bump in pkgrel is to rebuild nvidia for the new kernel, and as a consequence the pkgrel for nvidia-dkms is

[arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Amin Vakil
I have recently installed nvidia-dkms as I use linux-hardened, although I have installed linux package as well, but I always boot to linux-hardened. Anyway I've noticed that nvidia-dkms increases pkgrel everytime linux package gets upgraded, why is that so? Taken from NVIDIA wiki: Custom kernel