Comment 35 for bug 1431753

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josh (joshuaglennmurphy) wrote : Re: [Bug 1431753] Re: Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation

Nima this really isn't the place for that talk. Will EVERYONE please keep
this thread on topic about this bug and only this bug please
On 19 Jun 2015 21:51, "Nima" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I want to go to another linux distribution ,
> Can any body give me a hint about it?
> CentOS or Opensuse? Which one is better?
> which one has a full resource of software like ,for example "ubuntu
> software center"?
> Thanks for any help in advance
>
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> duplicate bug report (1412043).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753
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> Title:
> Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation
>
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> 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:
> Triaged
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty:
> Triaged
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty:
> Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty:
> Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty:
> Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty:
> Confirmed
>
> 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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