[Slackbuilds-users] nvidia-driver.info missing 64bit file info

Greg' Ar Tourter artourter at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 12:52:59 UTC 2013


Hi Robby,

No problems, it was easy enough to do. I include the remaining 3 patches in
the same format as the previous one. If you prefer them differently let me
know.

Cheers

Greg


On 16 July 2013 06:52, Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:31:58 +0100
> "Greg' Ar Tourter" <artourter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Robby,
> >
> > Well looking through the repository, the nvidia-driver  (and
> > avr8-gnu-toolchain, but that's only for the pdf manual) packages are
> > the only ones with files in common. So asking to download both
> > version seems rather a waste of bandwitdh
>
>
> Okay, fair point.
>
>
> > Moreover, for some packages (ucsc-blat, p4, p4v ), the source file
> > name is the same for 32 and 64 bit version but are downloaded from
> > different locations and have different checksum. in these case, wget
> > with append .1 to the second one and therefore making the slackbuild
> > use the 32bit version instead.
>
>
> Oh wow, I wasn't aware of that.
>
> Given all of this and erik's reply, I think it's probably a good
> change to make.
>
> Don't feel obligated to do this, as I don't mind doing it myself,
> but since I'm a bit tied up on another project right now, patches
> for all of the affected stuff would make this easier :)  Also,
> since you pointed it out, you should be credited with the fixes
> anyway.
>
> Seriously, though, if you don't want to do it or don't have time,
> that's fine.
>
> -RW
>
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