Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-375* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-381* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-384* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-387* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396*
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:41:59
Message-Id: 20181216204149.241b7315@wim.jer
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-375* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-381* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-384* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-387* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396* by Kent Fredric
1 (Re-sending using the proper e-mail address)
2
3 On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:53:03 +1300
4 Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
5
6 > On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:04:22 +0100
7 > Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
8 >
9 > > According to Nvidia these are former "Short Lived" branches that
10 > > are no longer supported.
11 > >
12 > >
13 > > # Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> (14 Dec 2018)
14 > > # Deprecated short lived branches
15 > > # https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
16 > > # File a bug report if you need to use one of these
17 > > # Removal on or about 14 January 2019
18 > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-375*
19 > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378*
20 > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-381*
21 > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-384*
22 > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-387*
23 > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396*
24 >
25 > I personally have a 540M, for which the "newest" supporting drivers
26 > are 396.18
27
28 No, 390.87 is the latest for your chip and is not masked for removal.
29
30 The 396 branch has seen no updates since 10 April 2018 while the 390
31 branch was last updated on 27 August 2018. Higher major versions do not
32 mean you have something better or newer.
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34
35 Kind regards,
36 jer

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