[elrepo] Announcement: EL5, EL6 and EL7 Updated NVIDIA drivers [367.27]

John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Mon Jun 20 10:13:38 EDT 2016


On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Phil Perry wrote:

> So the question is how do we handle this new Wayland lib in our nvidia 
> packages on RHEL? If we include the lib then we would also need to package 
> libwayland-client and libwayland-server as dependencies[1]. The other option 
> is to just ignore and not package libnvidia-egl-wayland.so for now, and this 
> is what I've done in our 367.27-1 release that has just been released to the 
> testing repository. I've only performed minimal testing on these packages so 
> please test and confirm they behave as expected on your systems.
>
> Given Wayland is relatively new technology and clearly not ready for an 
> Enterprise Linux environment yet, and is unlikely to be supported on any 
> current release of RHEL, I'm inclined to ignore it for now. Presumably those 
> wanting Wayland are using Fedora not RHEL.

I'd agree with ignoring this for now.

jh


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