FS#50560 - [nvidia] 370.23 should be downgraded to 367.44 as 370.23 are beta

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jerome (sinatosk) - Monday, 29 August 2016, 08:40 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 29 August 2016, 13:41 GMT
Task Type Support Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
370.23 should be downgraded to 367.44 as 370.23 are beta


Additional info:
I've attached a cropped screenshot of what I'm seeing on nvidia's website
   drivers.png (330 KiB)
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Monday, 29 August 2016, 13:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 29 August 2016, 08:42 GMT
Technically you are right but there were problems for a lot of users in the latest set of stable drivers that made me upgrade to the beta drivers. Now it turns out the beta drivers have issues as well. Just can't win.
Comment by Jerome (sinatosk) - Monday, 29 August 2016, 08:49 GMT
Ok, but excluding that it may resolve some issues... why introduce beta software into a stable repo that could potentially cause more problems?
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 29 August 2016, 10:13 GMT
Because I knew that it would get rid of two previous known problems and also it has PRIME sync support for people who have ongoing problems with bumblebee so that would have helped them. You've got to believe me that I don't like pushing beta software into stable but with nvidia it's always a dice roll. Their stable and beta drivers are not very different in my experience in terms of reliability.
Comment by Jerome (sinatosk) - Monday, 29 August 2016, 10:18 GMT
I'm not trying to cause discomfort here, just that I ain't a package manager and trying to understand this situation

Thanks anyway

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