[elrepo-devel] We have fglrx packages and X does not behave. How to proceed ?

[Jamie Bainbridge]

On 23 December 2015 at 23:04, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
> On 12/23/2015 02:57 PM, Ilyas Arinov wrote:
>>
>> Works for me with AMD APU 7850K, thanks for help.
>
>
>     You are welcome. But even if the current solution worked for now, with
> the current state of my packages if/when RHEL releases an update to
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg you will need to manually rename the culprit file again
> or gdm will once again fail to start ( actually not gdm as you thought but X
> , however this is irrelevant now).
>
>     I am looking into a real long term solution, not the AMD way which needs
> reinstalling after each update of an OS package.

To my knowledge there is no way around this within EPEL packaging
guidelines, because fglrx intentionally overwrites the stock libglx.so
like you say.

You could re-package xorg-x11-server-Xorg and override the EL package,
however that would probably violate EPEL packaging guidelines because
it interferes with a distro package.

Ubuntu have an fglrx package which survives updates. I know the kernel
module rebuilds with DKMS, but how do they handle libglx.so? This
might provide an idea you can use.