New packaging behaviour for nvidia/catalyst drivers - Please test !!!

Nicolas Chauvet kwizart at gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 11:17:49 CEST 2009


Hello:!

We have been reported a weird problem with the way proprietary gpu
drivers were currently packaged.
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859

I guess this appeared on wine update this friday that was the first
64bit version

If some are using FOSS gpu drivers, the workaround is to have
mesa-libGL.i586 installed. But if it"s not present, having the
rpmfusion-nonfree drivers fetched by the rpm dependencies is a very
bad behaviours.
The correct solution for now is to split out vendors libGL.so from the
dependencies Requires/Provides.
As a consequence, 64bit users having xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586
will have a new mesa-libGL..i566. That will be expected.

We need to have testers for the problem described in this bug, to push
this solution in stable updates very soon.
Updated vendors drivers package will be available in
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing hopefully in few hours.

Thx

Nicolas (kwizart)


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