Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58697
Xfree86 pacake should see if NVIDIA_GLX is present
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:08 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226 Description of problem: XFree86 should be made aware off installed NVIDIA_GLX, and it should not install libGL*,GLcore* and glx.a if it is present. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Xfree86 with nvidia_glx 2. 3. Actual Results: it removes nvidia libgl files in /usr/lin Expected Results: It should not try no install opengl and glx if nvidia is present. Additional info: This is an issue with the RPM isself and not nvidia. you could try to put in a condiotion. if NVIDIA_GLX is present then not install libgl.*,GLX and GLCore else install these files.
This is not at all an issue with RPM, nor with the RPM packages. RPM does not know or care what is or may be installed on the system via tarball, or otherwise manually installed. It never has, and never will. It _only_ knows and cares about what is in the RPM database. For that reason, one should install software only via RPM, or should install non-RPM software in a location other than where RPM is bound to install software from RPM packages. If the Nvidia files were instead installed from rpm packages as I describe above, then the files they contain would be known to RPM, and instead of overwriting them, RPM would halt and give a file conflict error. So, you're right - this problem is not an nvidia problem, however, it is not an RPM or packaging problem either. It is a local software installation issue.
However I think there is a problem. /usr/lib/libGL.so was removed along with Mesa when I installed XFree86-4.2-2.1. Nvidia_glx was not affected. I have rpm from redhat 7.2. I useed rpm to install NVIDIA_GLX rpm. Perhaps you in Redhat should try to get acces to NVIDIA source under a NDA.
No, that isn't a problem either. /usr/lib/libGL.so is owned *BY* the Mesa package. The new XFree86 obsoletes the old Mesa package, and when Mesa gets uninstalled, the files that it provided are removed. If you have replaced libGL from Mesa with some other libGL file, then it will be removed. Don't replace files RPM has installed, with other files, and they don't get removed when the RPM package is uninstalled. Also *DO NOT EVER* use --force or --nodeps to install RPM packages, such as the Nvidia ones, or these problems will also occur. Again - not a bug, but an abuse of using RPM. > Perhaps you in Redhat should try to get acces to NVIDIA source > under a NDA. I'm not sure what makes you think that we have _NOT_ tried to get Nvidia to release their source code. I would like nothing more than to see Nvidia release their sources, however - they have been very clear to us, and to the rest of the people who have contacted them, that they do not intend to do this. They are not interested in Open Source, and were _very_ clear on that. They also will not release their sources to anyone under NDA even to just _look_ at. Red Hat would not be interested in that at any rate, since if it is not open source that is redistributable in source code form under an open source compatible licence, then it would be of no use to us. We do not support Nvidia's binary only drivers in Red Hat Linux at all. People are free to use them of course, but doing so means that their system is unsupported.