On Tuesday 23 December 2003 19:45, Philip Wyett wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:02, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Before installing the nvidia drivers 4496 or the latest 5328 you must
> > first remove XFree86-Mesa-libGL to avoid conflicts.
>
> Apparently, I have to use --nodeps to remove this package. Wich means
> that if I want to install packages which require it afterwards, I'll
> probably have to install them with --nodeps too :-(
> What about renaming libGL.so.1 ? This is dirty, but installing and
> removing with --nodeps is equally dirty IMHO.
> What would be the best solution ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Aurelien
Indeed, XFree86-Mesa-libGL should be removed with '--nodeps'. Yes, the
dependency game here is not so nice. I have thought the best way to go
if Mr Harris issued an XFree86 update for Fedora or an application
depended on the lib... Would be to install it again go back to the 'nv'
driver, do what you have todo, remove XFree86-Mesa-libGL again and
re-install the binary 'nvidia' driver once more. A real pain no doubt,
but as clean as least troublesome as it's probably gonna get. :/
Regards
Philip Wyett
Wouldn't it be easy if the new rpm 'obsolutes' the old
XFree86-Mesa-libGL
and 'provide' everything XFree86-Mesa-libGL does?
btw: ASPLinux 9 uses another technique: when you install nvidia-glx it
uses a '%post'-install script to rename/move all conflicting Messa files
and make symlinks to the nvidia ones.
I was wondering... can't these 'hooks' or whatever it was called (script
that is invoked from one package when another one interacting with it
is installed/uninstalled) be used to do all necessary (moving/renaming)s?
Even in this case 'rpmverify XFree86-Mesa-libGL' will fail. Probably
even this can be solved by modifying bouth XFree86-Mesa-libGL and
nvidia-glx to get something like sendmail and postfix - you can switch
them when you want (in this case 'prelink' could be called too).
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Regards,
Doncho N. Gunchev