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@kingdomkind First of all, AUR helpers are not supported, use makepkg. Just run makepkg and both packages will be built, and then you install the needed one with 'pacman -U'.

Hi, sorry if this isn't the right place, but how is this package intended to be built? Since the clone url builds both nvidia-open-beta-dkms and nvidia-open-beta and they conflict with eachother. Using yay, it automatically just installs the nvidia-open-beta one (instead of dkms). I can manually remove the nvidia-open-beta from the pkg name section and just get nvidia-open-beta-dkms but i'm unsure if this is the intended / best way of getting only that package. Many thanks.

@gilvbp version 545.23.08 is lesser then version 545.29.03. The last upstream tag is not always the latest version.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/releases/tag/545.23.08 this should be the beta version, it's the last update package (17-11-2023)

Beware that installing this right now will brick your system because the other nvidia packages have not been updated to 545.29.03. You will get client-NVRM version mismatch errors, and the firmware files will not be found by mkinitcpio.

@crendel your fix did indeed solve my issues building this package. Thanks!

@crendel Patch updated. Thank you for reporting this.

@dbermond Thanks for your work maintaining this package! You've saved me hours of labor. :)

Would you mind adjusting your patchfile 130-nvidia-open-reproducible-build.patch by either changing the definition of HOSTNAME to $(printf '%s\n' archlinux) or wrapping $$(HOSTNAME) in backticks on utils.mk:543?

Note that WHOAMI in the unpatched makefile is assumed to hold a command that will be evaluated later, but HOSTNAME is treated as a simple string. Since HOSTNAME is not wrapped by a command substitution in utils.mk:543, the command set in the patched makefile is silently never evaluated (so the nvidstring always unintentionally contains archlinux_builder@printf '%s\n' archlinux instead of intended archlinux_builder@archlinux). I think this happens on all systems, not just mine, but I may be wrong.

But more significantly, when /bin/sh is dash (and maybe other shells that are more strictly POSIX-compliant than bash or zsh), the build fails altogether because the '\n' is parsed as a literal newline by the shell, leading to build errors like the below:

_out/Linux_x86_64/g_nvid_string.c:1:27: error: missing terminating " character
    1 | const char  NV_KMS_ID[] = "nvidia id: NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64  525.85.05  Release Build  (archlinux_builder@printf '%s
      |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
_out/Linux_x86_64/g_nvid_string.c:2:1: warning: missing terminating ' character
    2 | ' archlinux)  Thu Jan 19 01:41:59 PM EST 2023";
      | ^
_out/Linux_x86_64/g_nvid_string.c:2:1: error: missing terminating ' character
    2 | ' archlinux)  Thu Jan 19 01:41:59 PM EST 2023";

This latter error probably only happens for users (like me) who have linked /bin/sh to a different shell than the Arch default, but might as well make the patched utils.mk behave like the unpatched version as much as possible. :)

This might also be the same issue that @Fazzi had a few months ago.

Thanks again!