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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 10:46:20
Message-Id: 4646EB3C.9080009@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT by "Markus Schönhaber"
1 >> I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta
2 >> Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same
3 >> name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers
4 >> are installed - that's not the case :)
5 >
6 > Oh yes, dirty ;-)
7 > I assume you did also change the digest information for driver package,
8 > didn't you?
9
10 The result is the same, but creating an ebuild and putting it an overlay
11 is a much more cleaner way of doing it.
12
13 Regards,
14
15 Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT "Markus Schönhaber" <gentoo-user@×××××××××××.de>