Comment 130 for bug 1431753

Guys it's a closed source driver. I'm being a hypocrite here, but chillax.
On 14 Aug 2015 21:16, "teo1978" <email address hidden> wrote:

> > > And also, if a piece of software is designed in such a way that if you
> > > stop using it yoy have to uninstall it otherwise it may be harmful, it
> > > is badly designed.
> >
> > Ok, that implies that all drivers are badly designed. It's your opinion.
>
> Don't pretend you are stupid when you aren't. This driver used to have an
> option (nicely accessible through user interface) which allowed to just not
> use it. It was *designed* to be either used or not used. And when not used,
> it would do nothing and interfere with nothing.
> So, the newer version doesn't that anymore? Then you can't replace one
> version with another without performing some check. The update is
> incomplete and buggy if it does that.
>
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> duplicate bug report (1411195).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753
>
> Title:
> Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation
>
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same
> applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two
> individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm.
> The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs
> compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is
> violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build
> independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules
> dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new
> kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel).
>
> Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right
> course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS
> module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS).
> For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a
> breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package.
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