[elrepo] Announcement: Updated kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv [195.36.03] packages in testing

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>
>> Phil Perry wrote:
>>> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>>>> The upgrade works fine - although I did have to manually install
>>>> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit, required by an i486 adobe reader that I have here.
>>>
>>> I take it from your comment yum didn't resolve the dependency for
>>> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit automatically? I guess that would depend on the
>>> Requires present in the Adobe package.
>>
>> I can't say for yum, I used synaptic/apt for the upgrade.
>>
>> But yes, synaptic didn't automatically offer to install the elrepo
>> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit. Instead it offered to install the old dkms nvidia
>> stuff from rpmforge, even though I have elrepo pinned with a higher
>> priority than rf. But never mind, most people have probably shifted to
>> yum by now... I'm just stuck on apt, been using it since Matthias
>> offered it in freshrpms for RH 7.3 or 8.0 ;-)
>
> Nicolas, I am in the same boat ;-) Those were the days !
>
> In my case with no pinning and RPMforge and ELrepo enablusing apt, it
> updated fine from:
>
>      kmod-nvidia (190.42-1.el5.elrepo =>  195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo)
>      nvidia-x11-drv (190.42-1.el5.elrepo =>  195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo)
>
> I haven't tested the new driver yet though :-/

hey Dag,

I suspect you didn't have any problems because you don't have any 
installed apps requiring the 32-bit compat parts of the driver, which 
got split out of nvidia-x11-drv between versions 190.42-1.el5.elrepo and 
195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo .
There is now nvidia-x11-drv-32bit with those 32-bit compat parts, the 
same way you had it with the dkms-nvidia-* packages in rf.

This is what posed problem for apt: it wanted to install 
dkms-nvidia-drv-32bit.185.18.14-1.nodist.rf to satisfy a dep I have on 
the 32 bit parts (due to adobe reader), instead of installing the new 
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit from elrepo.

But a manual install solved this easily, np!