Bug 26452

Summary:	libglvnd for Mageia, new package request to enable Nvidia 435/440 drivers
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Elliot L <CheeseEBoi>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	olav
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	RPM Spec files + patches + sources for Libglvnd

Description Elliot L 2020-04-07 17:25:15 CEST

I made a package request (26432) a few days ago for the Nvidia 435/440 drivers in Mageia. However, the reason for their absence was due to Mageia lacking libglvnd. I have recently packaged this library for Mageia (based off of the version in Fedora 32) and I would like to see if it could be included in Cauldren and possibly even Mageia 7.

Comment 1 Elliot L 2020-04-07 17:31:11 CEST

Created attachment 11577 [details]
RPM Spec files + patches + sources for Libglvnd

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2020-04-08 09:43:46 CEST

Bug 26432 (for the link!).
Thank you for the suggestion.

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You Elliot might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager
Since you know about SPEC files, patches etc, please consider this seriously. We are always in need of more manpower.

Summary: Libglvnd for Mageia => libglvnd for Mageia, new package request to enable Nvidia 435/440 drivers
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 3 Olav Vitters 2020-04-08 15:48:23 CEST

It's usually better to get a package with one or more libraries from OpenMandriva. Their spec repository seems to be at https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation. So the libglvnd one was at https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/libglvnd.

The Fedora spec doesn't follow the Mageia packaging guidelines. The OpenMandriva (from a quick check) only needed a tiny change (Release: %mkrel 1).

You can see the current Mageia spec at http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/libglvnd/current/.

To see which distributions already have a package I often use https://pkgs.org/.

I've submitted libglvnd to Cauldron.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => olav

Olav Vitters 2020-04-08 15:48:35 CEST

Version: 7 => Cauldron

Comment 4 Elliot L 2020-04-08 16:54:23 CEST

Okay, hope this helped in some way!

Comment 5 Olav Vitters 2020-04-08 18:03:19 CEST

It caused me to pay attention to the bug. It's pretty unusual to have someone already have a spec file for it. Also, it feels like a shared effort, that's quite nicer.

Unfortunately I think I'm not good at training, I do hope you'll help more in some way (e.g. packager).