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Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:16 +0200, Jan Ciger wrote:
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>
> The binary driver has a -latest metapackage, which is always installed
> by XFdrake. This is what causes it to get updated.

Yes, assuming it was released and got to the mirror before the kernel
update which breaks things.

> If the situation were
> as you wrote, everyone running 2008 Spring with an NVIDIA card would
> currently have broken X, which is clearly not the case (I don't have a
> mob of angry NVIDIA card owners beating down my door).

Sorry, that is not an argument - that people do not update at late
evening doesn't mean the problem is not there. Perhaps I was the only
one who got bitten - consider yourself lucky.

> In any case, the situation you outline in this mail has nothing at all
> to do with the source package. Even if the source package weren't
> present, the outcome would be the same.

Yes, that is true, except of one case - if the source package was
installed properly (with kernel-devel), then the machine would reboot,
build a new driver and continue as usual. However, I am not pushing for
this solution since there is a policy of binary dkms drivers for stable
release - better fix the process so that the kernel cannot be upgraded
without upgrading all the binary drivers too.

Regards,

Jan

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