[Bug 408205] New: Yast2 Online Update Does Not Recognize when newer fglrx driver is installed .
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408205 Summary: Yast2 Online Update Does Not Recognize when newer fglrx driver is installed. Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Devs, (Stefan) Yast online update or zypper up, neither recognize when a newer ati fglrx driver is installed from the ATI package (example: ati-driver-installer-8-6-x86.x86_64.run) and an update using yast or zypper downgrades the fglrx driver. This happens when a new kernel is released, etc. An "update" should not "downgrade" software. In the case of the fglrx driver, yast should check for the existence of the driver installed from the driver-installer package, such as fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE103-8.501-1.x86_64.rpm and if found, should simply run /usr/bin/fglrx-kernel-build.sh as a post-install script instead of forcing the downgrade. Additionally, when install of the FGLRX driver is triggered as a "dependency" the user should be given the option of saying NO to the auto install of the older driver (or any package for that matter). However, currently, on a kernel update there is no way to say NO to an auto-dependency. Thanks. If you need any additional information, please just ask and I'll be happy to send. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Stefan Dirsch
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--- Comment #2 from David Rankin
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Stefan Dirsch
I thought you would like to make openSuSE better by making it "aware" of the fglrx driver that for the past year you have encouraged openSuSE users to install until belatedly the build service started catching up on driver versions. Generally the build service is 3 weeks to 2 months behind on the fglrx driver. Present example, 5.01 has been out for quite a while, but the build service is still stuck on 4.9x.
You're talking about the ATI repo on the ATI server. Please do not mix this up with openSUSE's buildservice. Reason for this delay is that driver updates are synced with SLES10, which gets better testing. And driver updates to the ATI repo can not happen more often than every 6 weeks. :-(
Further, Yast's behavior with regard to the fglrx driver has changed dramatically in the past month. Prior to the last kernel update, Yast would at least accommodate the fglrx driver on kernel updates by not forcing the install of, or downgrade to, whatever fglrx driver happens to be in the build service at the time of a kernel update. In the past the kernel update has simply ignored the driver and installed the new kernel simply resulting in the need for the kernel module being rebuilt.
I'm not aware of an kABI incompatible kernel update for openSUSE 11.0. Marcus, did I miss something here? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #4 from Marcus Meissner
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--- Comment #5 from Stefan Dirsch
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--- Comment #6 from David Rankin
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--- Comment #7 from Stefan Dirsch
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