[elrepo-devel] kmod-fglrx.el6

[Phil Perry]

On 10/02/11 20:31, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 10/02/11 18:33, Steve Cleveland wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/11 10:28, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>> Steve Cleveland wrote:
>>>> Was just going to try out the kmod-fglrx package in the test repository
>>>> for el6.  Ran into a quick problem:
>>>>
>>>> # yum --enablerepo=elrepotest install kmod-fglrx
>>>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
>>>> This system is not registered with RHN.
>>>> RHN support will be disabled.
>>>> Setting up Install Process
>>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>>> -->    Running transaction check
>>>> --->    Package kmod-fglrx.x86_64 0:10.12-1.el6.elrepo set to be updated
>>>> -->    Processing Dependency: fglrx-x11-drv = 10.12-1.el6.elrepo for
>>>> package: kmod-fglrx-10.12-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>>>> -->    Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>> Error: Package: kmod-fglrx-10.12-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 (elrepotest)
>>>>                Requires: fglrx-x11-drv = 10.12-1.el6.elrepo
>>>>                Available: fglrx-x11-drv-10.12-1.1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>>>> (elrepotest)
>>>>                    fglrx-x11-drv = 10.12-1.1.el6.elrepo
>>>>      You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>>>      You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>>>
>>>> The packages listed in the repo are:
>>>>
>>>> fglrx-x11-drv-10.12-1.1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>>> kmod-fglrx-10.12-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> So one is 10.12-1, the other is 10.12-1.1.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>      - Steve
>>>
>>> The reason (and it's still in testing) was mentioned by Phil here :
>>> http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=104
>>> I've myself not that laptop with fglrx anymore : i've just received my
>>> new Thinkpad which has Nvidia so i'll test the nvidia kmod on el6 :-)
>>
>> Great thanks.  I swear I searched for a bug report.  I don't see it when
>> going to the View Issues page.  Oh, I see, I have the project set to
>> el6.  I get it. :)  Never mind.  I'll get it installed and report back
>> in the bug report.
>>
>
> Yes, sorry about that - I ran out of time to rebuild the matching kmod
> package for testing (although the earlier release will "work" just fine
> with --nodeps).
>
> Lets see if we can make some progress on this over the next few days :-)
>

Thanks to Steve's testing, I think we now have some working packages for 
EL6 in the testing repository.

Is anyone else able to test them?


http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/

x86
kmod-fglrx-10.12-1.2.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
fglrx-x11-drv-10.12-1.2.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm

x86_64
kmod-fglrx-10.12-1.2.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
fglrx-x11-drv-10.12-1.2.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
fglrx-x11-drv-32bit-10.12-1.2.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

SRPM
fglrx-kmod-10.12-1.2.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm
fglrx-x11-drv-10.12-1.2.el6.elrepo.src.rpm