How to pin old image with 550 nvidia and then get latest updates

Bluefin and Aurora
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Given that the developer has reverted to NVIDIA 555 (as I noticed a recent change in the repository), I have an older ISO of Bluefin with the last nvidia 550 drivers before the new 555 drivers were released. I want to know how I can pin the 550 drivers while still updating the system to the current state without upgrading to 555 or later versions. I understand that I need to use curl -sL https://fix.universal-blue.org/ | sudo bash to update the old to re-base it to current state.

I personally had much better reliability on the 550 hence why im asking

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You’d need to stay on the old 550 image or generate a new image with the older drivers on it.

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Yes. How? Any guidance or examples please

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It’s not straightforward, you’d have to start by cloning one of our repos? It’s probably a last resort thing. Is your machine totally bricked?

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Not bricked. I do still have the old iso with the 550 nvidia-driver image so i want to keep that driver and avoid 555

So what do i need to do with the cloned repo and change in it but also keep the system upto date ?

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At a minimum probably start with packaging the 550 drivers, then you’d need to fork the Bluefin repo and maintain it yourself. It’s definately not something we’d recommend to a beginner.

You’d probably be better off just waiting on the old image or fixing whatever problem you have in the first place.

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oh ok. i have the old iso from your website so 550 already baked in, could you please share or direct me to a site that guides me through what you’re asking me to do?

When you mention making my own image, are you referring to creating a new deployment?

It seems like this shouldn’t be so complicated. I noticed the line ARG NVIDIA_CACHE="ghcr.io/ublue-os/akmods-nvidia:${AKMODS_FLAVOR}-${FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION}-20240806" in your container file. Is there a way to revert back to the 550 drivers but still receive the latest updates, excluding the 555 and later NVIDIA drivers?

Or could someone please be kind enough to hold my hand by guiding me through this process