Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: Matt Turner <mattst88@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 19:40:20
Message-Id: 20181216204000.18747088@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 Matt Turner
1 On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:03:52 -0800
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Thanks. What do we want to do about -304?
5
6 It's not on the list above because it's a "legacy driver", not a
7 "short lived" branch[1]. It's not relevant in this context what happens
8 to the 304 branch, the context being a cleanup of intermediate branches
9 that were abandoned and surpassed by "long lived" branches.
10
11 > It still requires xorg-server-1.19 which I'd like to drop due to a
12 > security vulnerability. After the listed versions are gone, -304 will
13 > be the only thing keeping 1.19 in tree.
14
15 I see no open security bug report for this. If we had one of those, then
16 we could write a package.mask entry for both xorg-server and
17 nvidia-drivers with a reference to the security issue, or add the
18 branches that are now masked for removal. That way people can plan
19 their hardware's obsolescence properly or shift to a different driver.
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22 Kind regards,
23 jer
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26 [1] https://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html

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