[elrepo] NVIDIA and RHEL 6.5 issue (libglamoregl)

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Michael Lampe <mlampe0 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Changing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/glamor.conf seems not to be an option
> because RH has not marked this file as configuration file. It will get
> overwritten by every update.
>
> Recommending uninstallation of xorg-x11-glamor would be too naive, nobody
> will probably read the documentation -- especially not me! I always use the
> elrepo driver and expect to be set ...
>
> So, my two cents are definitely on "Conflicts: ...".

As Phil briefly mentioned, using Conflicts has own issues. Let me
elaborate on this.

When the 'Conflicts' version of nvidia is released, everyone running
6.5 gets affected and 'yum update' will fail. Also, if the user
installs this version while still at 6.4, then' yum update to 6.5'
would fail. I think this has a huge impact on our nvidia package
users. If those who are running yum autoupdate do not notice this,
their systems would be in trouble.

Also mentioned by Phil, the existence of xorg-x11-glamor does not seem
to have instantly obvious maleffects. I have a system running 6.5 +
nvidia and tested it using software that extensively uses OpenGL
(pymol, to be specific). So far, I have not noticed any problem.

So the question arises. Is the [said] problem serious enough to
justify the use of Conflicts?

Akemi