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davidshen84
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 Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 7:40 am Post subject: nvidia-driver binary installation convention |
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Hi,
I found the binaries from "Nvidia-drivers" are installed in two places, while on other distros, like Ubuntu, all Nvidia driver's binaries are installed to "/usr/bin". I checked the ebuild file, and it looks like a deliberate effort.
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~ % qlist x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers | grep '/bin/'
/opt/bin/nvidia-ngx-updater
/opt/bin/nvidia-cuda-mps-server
/opt/bin/nvidia-cuda-mps-control
/opt/bin/nvidia-debugdump
/opt/bin/nvidia-smi
/usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh
/usr/bin/nvidia-sleep.sh
/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe
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Why does Gentoo do this? Maybe for some legacy reason?
I just encountered an issue where the nvidia operator validator hardcoded to try to find "/usr/bin/nvidia-smi", https://github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator/blob/main/validator/main.go#L703.
Should we update the ebuild file to follow mainstream? I know Gentoo prefer putting vendor-provided binaries to "/opt/bin".
Thanks
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netfab
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| Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 9:04 am Post subject: Re: nvidia-driver binary installation convention |
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Hi,
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... hardcoded ...
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I think that is the main problem.
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Should we update the ebuild file to follow mainstream? |
You could also open a bug on gentoo, and ask the maintainer. Maybe he could add a /usr/bin --> /opt/bin symlink for this binary. |
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Ionen
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| Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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It's mostly historical and the split may not be worth keeping but, for what it's worth, the ones in /opt/bin are prebuilt binaries while /usr/bin been built from source (or are just scripts). Gentoo does have a tendency to put prebuilts in /opt, but it's not a requirement.
Albeit hardcoding paths is still a silly thing to do either way. |
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