[pkg-nvidia-devel] debian package nvidia-glx

[Randall Donald]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 03:07 +0200, eleos papadopoulos wrote:
> Is it me or /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx needs a little cleanup? 

Yes it does.

> There seem
> to be two functions (setup_links and remove_links) that never get
> called. 

Not any more.


> Also it seems that it doesn't effect the tls lib selection at
> all so the description should be changed to something like "libgl
> selection", the if [ -z "$USE_TLS" ] ... should be deleted, the
> /usr/lib/nvidia/{tls_test,tls_test_dso.so) should be removed and the
> settings in /etc/default/nvidia-glx are irrelevant. 

With today's systems it probably is. It would still be needed for etch I
believe.

> And if all this is
> true you should also remove
> {/usr/lib/nvidia/,/usr/lib/tls/}/libnvidia-tls.so.$(version) since i
> have no indication whatsoever that ld sees any of that. :)
I believe this still has to stay although it's been a while since I
looked into the TLS support for this stuff. It is probably the only
option these days. It would still be necessary on etch.

BTW Please email the packaging team list and not its members directly.

 
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