Hi, first of all, I’m a longtime Manjaro user now and I really love it for the most part. But as always there are things which can be improved. One thing I miss from the old days is one simple package for the nvidia driver which we have to install once and forget about it. It did always have the la…

Manjaro is a semi-rolling distribution because it has periodic sets of updates so it makes sense that drivers and kernels are also not rolling so they do not break when used in the sets of updates. I think the only way to get a true rolling package is to use a true rolling distribution.

I wrote a little script from scratch that would work in a pacman hook: [image] mhwd-latest pacman hook ($2030841) · Snippets · Snippets GitLab.com Are you looking for something like that?

[image] megavolt: I wrote a little script from scratch that would work in a pacman hook Nice thanks for your effort, but [image] megavolt: Are you looking for something like that? this is not exactly what I’m looking for. I want to be able to automatically update the nvidia driver, …

[image] anon36603275: This package would contain currently driver version 455. But when for example driver 460 comes out, this exact package ( linux59-nvidia ) would become driver 460. Without changing its name. Without having to uninstall an old package and install a new one. It would stay the…

[image] stephane: this cannot be apply because It can. We already have proven it in the past, when Manjaro used this exact approach. Also Arch does the same and some other distros. So it is definitely possible. [image] stephane: many laptop use older nvidia version Yeah, fine. They c…

@philm @aragorn @megavolt we have found a candidate for testing hybrid cards

[image] anon36603275: Now there would be an additional mhwd profile and package: linux59-nvidia // (or maybe linux59-nvidia-latest ) Ok understand… what you are looking for is then exclude mhwd and use a meta package like arch. Using a config “latest-yx” is not really useful in mhwd. That me…

I still prefer the mhwd profile over a metapackage or pacman hook. The downsides of just a metapackage: There is no mhwd support. Updating the kernel means having to manually uninstall the metapackage for the driver first, update kernel with mhwd, afterwards installing the metapackage manually ag…

[image] anon36603275: I would really like to avoid any unnecessary downloads. [image] anon36603275: which is not possible if you have packages installed depending on nvidia (for example cuda and nvtop). Both points are eligible and yes i understand this view. I believe that can be done…

[image] megavolt: If the hock detects a newer profile before upgrading it will delete the current driver just my first thoughts… guess this won’t be possible because you have to do system updates first to update mhwd for the new profile of the new driver to be even available to install. So de…

Add nvidia driver rolling package

Feedback Feature Request

anon36603275 8 November 2020 09:25 31

Update:
Looks like we have a new chance to get a rolling nvidia driver again.
If you want it please vote for it here: