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

[Phil Perry]

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> 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!

Hi Nicolas,

We have the following conflicts set in nvidia-x11-drv intended to stop 
that kind of thing happening:

# rpmforge
Conflicts:	dkms-nvidia
Conflicts:	dkms-nvidia-x11-drv
Conflicts:	dkms-nvidia-x11-drv-32bit

We'd had conflicts before with rpmforge packages where both repo's were 
installed, but I'd hoped the above would address that, although I think 
the cause was a repo priority issue.

BTW, this (195.36.03) release is a beta release (nvidia's designation, 
not ours) so we'll leave this package in elrepo-testing until such time 
as nvidia release a final version of the 195.xx series. The good news is 
that the nvidia driver kmod packages (both this version and the current 
release in the main repo) appear kABI compliant with the forthcoming 
RHEL5.5 release, at least it is with the RHEL5.5beta1 kernel 
(2.6.18-186.el5).