FS#2673 - nvidia install - specify kernel version

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 28 April 2005, 23:24 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 29 April 2005, 16:37 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

It might be nice to update the nvidia driver after a kernel update but before rebooting.
However, the nvidia installer uses uname for the kernel version - yet does hav a parameter to specify a different version.

My suggestion is to allow something like this:
KERNEL=2.6.11.7-ARCH pacman -S nvidia

where the installer would check:
if [ -z $KERNEL ]; then
KERNEL=`uname -r`
fi
...
nvidia-installer ..... -k $KERNEL .....

not important, just figured it'd be nice
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Friday, 04 November 2005, 10:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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