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NVIDIA's proprietary driver kernel module common files
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/etc/nvidia/kernel.conf getting overwritten #14

Open brittyazel opened 4 hours ago

brittyazel commented 4 hours ago

Hello, thank you for all of your hard work maintaining up-to-date Nvidia drivers for myself and my department at the University of California, San Francisco.

We have a large number of Pascal GPUs that I manage for my department, and since the update to the 560 driver I have needed to modify /etc/nvidia/kernel.conf to use the "kernel" variant instead of the "kernel-open" variant. However, even after deploying this modified file out to our many systems, this file keeps getting replaced and moved to kernel.conf.rpmsave, leading to the "kernel-open" variant being repeatedly built instead.

The issue here seems to stem from /etc/nvidia/kernel.conf only being marked as %config rather than %config(noreplace), as is explained here. And, as this file is written before the DKMS build happens, it means that I have to fix the file and manually re-build my DKMS modules each and every time we have a driver update.

Can you please mark this file as %config(noreplace) in the .spec so as to write the new file to .rpmnew instead of the other way around? I believe those of us with Volta/Pascal/Maxwell cards (and in my case dozens of them) would greatly appreciate not having to continually re-set this file.

Thanks,

brittyazel commented 4 hours ago

I believe #13 also touches on the above issue.