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#1 2025-11-26 17:30:19
- shanecav
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Understanding changes in a new release of nvidia-open
There's a new release of nvidia-open. The "View Changes" link shows that the `pkgrel` was changed with no other change. The source repo hasn't had a change in 3 weeks. I see that `pkgrel` refers to "fixes and additional features are added to the PKGBUILD that influence the resulting package". Why did the `pkgrel` change when there don't seem to be any source changes?
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#2 2025-11-26 17:32:25
- Scimmia
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Re: Understanding changes in a new release of nvidia-open
Most of the time, it's for kernel updates, as you can see from the commit messages. This is a binary module package that needs to match the kernel it's built against.
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#3 2025-11-26 17:35:12
- shanecav
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Re: Understanding changes in a new release of nvidia-open
Most of the time, it's for kernel updates, as you can see from the commit messages. This is a binary module package that needs to match the kernel it's built against.
Thank you. That makes sense.
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