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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev-announce <gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: 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 22:32:46
Message-Id: 20181216233236.1fb6ced9@wim.jer
In Reply to: [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 Jeroen Roovers
1 On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:04:22 +0100
2 Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > According to Nvidia these are former "Short Lived" branches that are
5 > no longer supported.
6 >
7 >
8 > # Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> (14 Dec 2018)
9 > # Deprecated short lived branches
10 > # https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
11 > # File a bug report if you need to use one of these
12 > # Removal on or about 14 January 2019
13 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-375*
14 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378*
15 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-381*
16 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-384*
17 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-387*
18 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396*
19
20 I additionally masked =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304* after I was
21 notified that a security bug[1] requires the removal of the last
22 version of x11-base/xorg-server that =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304*
23 supports. Nvidia ended support for the 304 branch around the end of
24 2017[2].
25
26
27 Kind regards,
28 jer
29
30
31 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/669588
32 [2] https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142