[arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

Chris Billington chrisjbillington at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 16:54:26 UTC 2020


On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:48 PM Amin Vakil <info at aminvakil.com> wrote:

>
> So why should nvidia-dkms upgrades?
>

it's because nvidia-dkms is part of a split package that builds both nvidia
and nvidia-dkms. The bump in pkgrel is to rebuild nvidia for the new
kernel, and as a consequence the pkgrel for nvidia-dkms is bumped too, even
though it is unnecessary.

-Chris


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