* Anssi Hannula <anssi@(protected)]:
> Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) wrote:
> > * Anssi Hannula <anssi@(protected)]:
> >> Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) wrote:
> >>> * Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@(protected)]:
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> >>>> Anssi Hannula wrote:
> >>>>> Steve Morris wrote:
> >>>>>> After the last cooker update I found through update-alternatives that
> >>>>>> the opengl interface was not using the nvidia opengl drivers. I have
> >>>>>> used update-alternatives to set the opengl drivers back to nvidias. I
> >>>>>> also found that xorg.conf had the video driver set to nv instead of
> >>>>>> nvidia, which I have now changed back. Why is this occurring as this is
> >>>>>> not the first time this has occurred, particularly when the video driver
> >>>>>> version has not changed during the update?
> >>>>> This happens when you boot a kernel that does not have the proprietary
> >>>>> nvidia module installed (and/or dkms couldn't build it).
> >>>>>
> >>>> On a Cooker-unrelated note - this has happened on 2008.1 too now with
> >>>> the recent kernel update, because the -devel packages were not updated
> >>>> with the kernel and dkms couldn't build the module.
> >>> Do you have the -devel-latest package installed?
> >>> y
> >> Maybe kernel-foo-x.y.z should suggest kernel-foo-latest and
> >
> > I think installing -latest by default is enough, if it is missing the user
> > must have removed it.
>
> Yeah, but if we make kernel-foo-devel-x.y.z suggests
> kernel-foo-devel-latest, it would be better to have the kernel-foo-x.y.z
> do the same.

I vote no for both, then. It was decided to go with binary DKMS for user
ease, so less reasons to do much effort on source DKMS ease. Also, as the
kernel is always an install, never an upgrade, by default the suggests would
always be effective, and require --nosuggests too frequently for installing
kernels.


> >> kernel-foo-devel-x.y.z should suggest kernel-foo-devel-latest?
> >
> > dkms suggests kernel-devel-latest, shouldn't it be enough?
>
> It probably causes urpmi to ask which devel flavor the user wants.

Looks sane to me. Better if urpmi'd tell it is just a suggests, and added a
"0) none" alternative. :]


> And just for the record, in 2008.1 no package provides
> 'kernel-devel-latest' yet.

Gah... Well, possibly the next update...