[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 15048 - viric - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Llus Batlle wrote:

> -        url = "http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/${versionNumber}/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${versionNumber}-pkg0.run";
> -        sha256 = "1x1pa8w8v4vciinr5ismp7zfl3nsn7x0k5n8m6r1cql6i0rxxgsy";
> +        url = "http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/${versionNumber}/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${versionNumber}-pkg2.run";
> +        sha256 = "0d3zxvfl3aav7h692yarc3rf04hpg972zkxv7a941wmqx08f66xp";

I believe that pkg0, pkg1, and pkg2 are simply different releases of the same
version of the driver that contain increasing levels of pre-built kernel modules
for various distributions.  We want pkg0 because we don't use any of those
modules (and it's a lot smaller).

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/