Comment 94 for bug 1431753

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

Dude no one cares this is a bug reporting place not an opinion catcher.
On 12 Aug 2015 11:46, "teo1978" <email address hidden> wrote:

> > Please keep your subjective comments to yourself
>
> I think my comments were pretty objective.
> Ubuntu fails at providing a decent user experience, and it's getting worse.
> Ubuntu sucks at supporting NVidia (which is probably mostly NVidia's
> fault, but other distros do better nonetheless).
> Ubuntu spends very little effort in improving its desktop operating system
> since their interest have moved to mobile.
> Ubuntu fails at fixing bugs in a decent time.
>
> Now all of this may well be OT here, but they are facts, with little
> margin of subjectivity.
>
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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:
> 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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