Using yum to update livna nvidia packages?

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 03:33 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 20:19 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > Yum by default does an install on new kernels and modules.  That is so
> > it does not break the existing installation.
> > 
> > However, as Paul has stated, other packages are not installed but
> > upgraded. (The older package is removed)
> > 
> > I would be willing to guess that using Paul's procedure it will work or
> > you simply might try
> >      yum install kernel-module-nvidia.....  nvidia-glx.....  
> > with the matching 7167 version numbers and it should work.
> > You might need to use a force or nodeps option.
> > 
> > This might be a failed dependency configuration of the nvidia-glx
> > package and since that comes from livna the issue at that point would
> > need to be addressed to Axel there.
> > 
> > As I said above, it may be a packaging issue.  That would need to be
> > addressed to the packager directly,  Livna.
> 
> Thanks, Jeff.
> 
> I've already added comments to this bug:
> 
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385
> 
> You and Paul are bringing me round to the idea that "yum install" is
> what is needed, but I think that is a failure in yum. Or, it could be a
> packaging bug. But I don't think a user, especially one who is not as
> experienced as I am (I've been using GNU/Linux for years, I'm a web
> developer, etc.), should ever be confronted with this conundrum:
> 
> $ sudo yum list updates
> [snip]
> Updated Packages
> kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.i6 1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3     livna-testing
> nvidia-glx.i586                          1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3     livna-testing
> 
> $ sudo yum update
> [snip]
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Error: Package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 needs nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.6629, this is not available.
> 

I see the issue here.  You already have kernel-module-nvidia for the
6629 drive installed for the existing kernel 2.6.10-1.770.   So when you
install the new driver level for the same kernel it breaks the
dependency for the nvidia-glx.  You will need to do an uninstall of the
old driver and an install of the new driver since they are for the same
kernel level.

> Yum may be hard-coded to not update kernel modules, but that shouldn't
> include a newer version of the *same* (i.e. built for exactly the same
> kernel) module. Maybe the shortcoming is in rpm, maybe yum has no way of
> telling what is a new version of an existing kernel module and what is a
> kernel module for a totally different kernel. But whether the fault is
> with yum or rpm it still needs an RFE. Now if I can just determine what
> exactly is going on, I'm happy to do the honours. Yum RFE? RPM RFE? or
> Livna packaging bug?
> 

That would be 1) rpm related and 2) packager related.

However, since a driver needs to be exactly one driver for that piece of
hardware, then the rpm packager needs to do an uninstall of the existing
driver as he installs the new driver.

I would file that with Livna as a packaging issue.  It needs to remove
the old package, and everything else that depends on that package before
it installs the new one.

As I see it, the new kernel module is being installed, but that would
break the related nvidia-glx package, so it also should remove the glx
package as part of installing the new kernel module package.

It still seems a packager issue since they apparently did not handle
removing packages that depend on the module when upgrading the module.

> Suggestions welcome!
> 
> Best, Darren
> 
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