Debian Bug report logs - #528758
nvidia: Please provide dkms support

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann@web.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: nvidia: Please provide dkms support

Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:29:11 +0200

Package: nvidia-kernel-source
Version: 180.44-2
Severity: wishlist
File: nvidia

As dkms recently showed up as a package it would be grant to have building the nvidia drivers go through that rather than a manual "m-a" call.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-source depends on:
ii  debhelper                     7.2.11     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpatch                        2.0.31     patch maintenance system for Debia
ii  make                          3.81-5     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  sed                           4.2-1      The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-source recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.49    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  kernel-package                12.014     A utility for building Linux kerne
ii  nvidia-glx                    180.44-2   NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

nvidia-kernel-source suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 528758@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@stwm.de>

To: 528758@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: nvidia: Please provide dkms support

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:48:03 +0100

But the possibility to build a binary package for a specific kernel should 
remain available so that you can compile and build the package on one machine 
and then install it on another without having to install dkms, gcc, ... on 
the target.

You can't do that with dkms yet.

dkms in its present form is in some sort a way back.

Regards,
-- 
Wolfgang Walter

Message #15 received at 528758@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>

To: 528758@bugs.debian.org, Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@stwm.de>

Subject: Re: Bug#528758: nvidia: Please provide dkms support

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:09:38 +0100

Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> But the possibility to build a binary package for a specific kernel should
> remain available so that you can compile and build the package on one
>  machine and then install it on another without having to install dkms,
>  gcc, ... on the target.
> 
> You can't do that with dkms yet.
> 
> dkms in its present form is in some sort a way back.
It is different and not a way back. Both ways should be provided. One for 
module-assistant and one for dkms. This is how it was implemented in batman-
adv-dkms, batmand-gateway-dkms and openafs-modules-dkms.

Best regards,
	Peter

Message #20 received at 528758@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@stwm.de>

To: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>

Cc: 528758@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#528758: nvidia: Please provide dkms support

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:24:54 +0100

Am Freitag, 6. November 2009 schrieb Peter Fritzsche:
> Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> > But the possibility to build a binary package for a specific kernel
> > should remain available so that you can compile and build the package on
> > one machine and then install it on another without having to install
> > dkms, gcc, ... on the target.
> >
> > You can't do that with dkms yet.
> >
> > dkms in its present form is in some sort a way back.
>
> It is different and not a way back. Both ways should be provided. One for
> module-assistant and one for dkms. This is how it was implemented in
> batman- adv-dkms, batmand-gateway-dkms and openafs-modules-dkms.
>

Yes, this is what I mean: dkms is not a replacement.

I wrote this because virtualbox-ose now only provides dkms: 
virtualbox-ose-source now uses dkms. I hope this does not happen with 
nvidia-source, too. 

Regards,
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
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Message #25 received at 528758@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Weiss <weiss@druga.org>

To: 528758@bugs.debian.org

Subject: nvidia: Please provide dkms support

Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:28:06 +0100

The Ubuntu maintainers implemented dkms support some time ago. Maybe it
would be great checking out:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/nvidia-173-kernel-source

Greetings,
  gw

Message #30 received at 528758@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ivan Borzenkov <ivan1986@list.ru>

To: 528758@bugs.debian.org

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:57:34 +0400

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not this http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/nvidia-173-kernel-source

use this http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/lucid/nvidia-graphics-drivers

need only fix dpkg divert

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Иван Борзенков <ivan1986@list.ru>

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Message #37 received at 528758-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>

To: 528758-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#528758: fixed in nvidia-graphics-drivers 195.36.24-1

Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:33:00 +0000

Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Source-Version: 195.36.24-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
nvidia-graphics-drivers, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libcuda1-dev_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/libcuda1-dev_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
libcuda1_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/libcuda1_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-dev_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-glx-dev_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-glx_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
nvidia-graphics-drivers_195.36.24-1.debian.tar.gz
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_195.36.24-1.debian.tar.gz
nvidia-graphics-drivers_195.36.24-1.dsc
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_195.36.24-1.dsc
nvidia-graphics-drivers_195.36.24.orig.tar.gz
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_195.36.24.orig.tar.gz
nvidia-kernel-dkms_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-kernel-dkms_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
nvidia-kernel-source_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-kernel-source_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
nvidia-libvdpau-dev_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-libvdpau-dev_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
nvidia-libvdpau1_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-libvdpau1_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
nvidia-vdpau-driver_195.36.24-1_i386.deb
  to non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-vdpau-driver_195.36.24-1_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 528758@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated nvidia-graphics-drivers package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:40:26 -0700
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Binary: nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-ia32 nvidia-glx-dev nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-libvdpau1 nvidia-libvdpau1-ia32 nvidia-libvdpau-dev nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-vdpau-driver-ia32 libcuda1 libcuda1-ia32 libcuda1-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 195.36.24-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description: 
 libcuda1   - NVIDIA CUDA runtime library
 libcuda1-dev - NVIDIA CUDA development files
 libcuda1-ia32 - NVIDIA CUDA runtime library (32-bit)
 nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
 nvidia-glx-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
 nvidia-glx-ia32 - NVIDIA binary driver 32bit libs
 nvidia-kernel-dkms - NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
 nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
 nvidia-libvdpau-dev - NVIDIA vdpau development files
 nvidia-libvdpau1 - NVIDIA vdpau libraries
 nvidia-libvdpau1-ia32 - NVIDIA vdpau 32-bit libraries
 nvidia-vdpau-driver - NVIDIA vdpau driver
 nvidia-vdpau-driver-ia32 - NVIDIA vdpau 32-bit driver
Closes: 241994 254859 279182 295909 303521 334848 368669 394085 395226 460509 473378 523879 528758 534535 571674 575457 575550 578589
Changes: 
 nvidia-graphics-drivers (195.36.24-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Russ Allbery ]
   * New upstream release.  (Closes: #571674, #575457, #575550, #578589)
   * Add an nvidia-kernel-dkms package which builds the kernel module using
     DKMS and hence automatically does the right thing with kernel upgrades
     (provided the module builds).  (Closes: #334848, #395226, #528758)
   * Overhaul the build system in nvidia-kernel-source to not require
     module-assistant, be more robust in its derivation of the kernel
     version, and embed the kernel package version in the module package
     version.  Recommend nvidia-kernel-common since it's a dependency of
     the generated module package.  Remove the unnecessary recommendation
     of devscripts.  (Closes: #254859, #279182, #303521, #368669, #473378)
     (Closes: #523879, #534535)
   * nvidia-kernel-<version> now only recommends linux-image-<version>
     instead of depending on it, allowing the package to be used with
     hand-built kernels not installed as regular packages.
   * Build the tarball for nvidia-kernel-source directly in the staging
     directory rather than using dh_install to install it elsewhere and do
     that as a dh_auto_install override.  This simplifies creation of the
     nvidia-kernel-dkms package.
   * All packages that suggested nvidia-kernel-source now suggest
     nvidia-kernel-dkms as an alternative.
 .
   [ Andreas Beckmann ]
   * do not ship empty directory in module package
   * debian.binary/rules, debian.binary/install.template: use dh_install to
     install the module
   * debian.binary/rules: fix clean target if debian/control is missing and
     cleanup ancient code (closes: #241994, #295909, #460509)
   * update debian.binary/control.template using the copy from
     nvidia-graphics-modules-i386
   * include a copy of the NVIDIA changelog in the module packages built from
     nvidia-kernel-source
   * install the changelog from the nvidia-kernel-source package, too, if
     building via nvidia-graphics-modules
   * nvidia-kernel-source: bump debhelper dependency to 7 to match module
     packaging templates
   * merge debian.binary/copyright with debian/copyright.in
   * debian/control:
     - drop versioned Depends/Build-Depends satisfied in lenny
     - drop Conflicts/Replaces for packages existing before lenny only
   * TLS cleanup: Debian only ships TLS enabled 2.6 kernels, so remove all
     dynamic TLS checking and symlink updating code (closes: #394085)
     - nvidia-glx.README.Debian: don't talk about TLS any longer
     - debian/nvidia-glx.init: remove (inactive) tls symlink adjusting code
     - debian/nvidia-glx.default: remove, no longer needed
     - nvidia-glx.postinst: remove /etc/default/nvidia-glx on upgrades
     - stop shipping /usr/lib/nvidia/tls_test*
   * debian/nvidia-glx.bug-script: new bug script that reports a bit of useful
     version and hardware information
   * debian/control: bump debhelper B-D to (>= 7.2.3~) for dh_bugfiles
   * debian/rules: use dh_bugfiles to install bug script
   * Create symlinks NVIDIA-Linux{-i386,-amd64,} pointing to the extracted
     upstream archives to reduce #DIRNAME# and $(dirname_*) usage. (Using
     wildcards is not a good idea since beta releases use a different naming
     scheme.)
   * debian/*.in: replace #DIRNAME# with NVIDIA-Linux and rename *.in to * if
     this was the only substitution
   * patches/*, patches.save/*, patches.dpatch.save/*: remove, long obsolete
   * debian/rules: remove obsolete code
   * debian/upstream_info, debian/rules: simplify
     - add URL_X86 and URL_X86_64, include both URLs in debian/copyright
     - drop unused variables BASE_VERSION, FILENAME, DIRNAME, URL, RELEASE,
       UPSTREAMVERSION, NEXTVER
   * conftest.h: implement conftest.sh function acpi_walk_namespace (new in
     195.xx), acpi_walk_namespace is available since 2.4.0 (checked with lxr)
   * conftest.h: reorder and make INIT_WORK implementation more complete
   * debian.binary/control.template: rename to *.in
   * debian/rules: use same variable substitutions as for debian/*.in to create
     debian.binary/control.template
   * debian/rules: rename target build-kernel-stamp to module-source-stamp,
     reindent, simplify and unify; do not require root for building the tarball
   * debian/rules: rename target configure-stamp to unpack-stamp and fix
     dependencies
   * debian/rules: remove unused stamp files, targets and variables
   * maintainer scripts:
     - synchronize with dh_make templates
     - document the target release squeeze for some cleanup operations as a
       hint to remove them after squeeze release
     - remove code deactivated before etch release
     - remove diversion transition and cleanup code introduced before etch
       release
     - remove libwfb.so diversion cleanup code introduced before lenny release
   * nvidia-glx: stop diverting /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so,
     was removed in Xorg 1.6, add Breaks: xserver-xorg-core (<< 2:1.6) instead
   * nvidia-glx: stop diverting files not seen in etch or later:
     - /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
     - /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.a
   * nvidia-glx: clean up diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.a (was not being created
     in etch or later), the file is provided by libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev which
     conflicts with nvidia-glx
   * remove empty maintainer script nvidia-glx-dev.preinst.in
   * debian/rules, debian/*.install.in: use dh_install instead of manual
     installation
   * debian/*.dirs: remove or minimize
   * debian/rules: reindent and simplify
   * debian/rules: switch to dh with a few overrides
   * debian.binary/patches/select-nv-kernel.o.ARCH.patch: add new patch instead
     of editing files with sed when creating the tarball
   * update lintian overrides
   * debian/rules: generate most parts of the AUTOGEN list automatically
   * debian/changelog, debian/*.README*: whitespace cleanup
   * move files: debian.binary/ ==> debian/module/debian/,
     Makefile, conftest.*, patches.h ==> debian/module/
   * debian/rules: adjust for debian/module/
   * switch to source format 3.0 (quilt)
   * debian/module/debian/: set source format 1.0, the module source "package"
     is shipped as .tar.bz2 and unpacked with tar, therefore no newer features
     can be used
   * conftest.h: ensure the macros from linux/version.h are available
   * debian/module/debian/patches/conditionally-include-linux_version.h.patch:
     new patch, ensure linux/version.h is included only once (that header does
     not have include guards)
   * debian/README*: remove reference to http://people.debian.org/~rdonald
   * remove Randall Donald from Uploaders per his request
   * debian/control:
     - remove dependency on x11-common, probably remained from the X11R6 time
     - reformat, synchronize, use more substvars
     - add Conflicts with nvidia-glx-legacy-* packages
     - reorder packages for better logical grouping
   * install the bug-script in all packages as well as in the binary modules
     packages built from nvidia-kernel-source
   * replace shell script debian/upstream_info with makefile fragment
     debian/rules.defs
   * debian/rules, debian/README.source: add new target get-orig-source and
     simplify instructions for tarball creation:
     uscan --report && dch -v <version> && debian/rules get-orig-source
   * fix-2.6.33-build.patch: remove, fixed by upstream in 195.36.24
   * libcuda1.symbols: update for symbol changes in 195.xx
   * nvidia-kernel-source.README.Debian: mention dkms and m-a before everything
     else, drop some very outdated information
   * debian/rules.defs, debian/rules: add variable/placeholder LEGACY
     and new subst vars nvidia:Legacy and nvidia:LegacyDesc
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