<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpc7a24c9ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I should add that making nvidia-driver conflict with later kernel versions for which it has not been tested is only an *example* solution,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">but clearly not the only way to keep apt-get upgrade working properly with nvidia-driver.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">A more flexible solution would be to create an optional dummy package, nvidia-dkms-compat, with the same version as nvidia-kernel-dkms</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">but which conflicts with later kernel versions than the ones where nvidia-kernel-dkms was tested.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Users that want to keep the current informal status can avoid installing nvidia-dkms-compat and rely on the description of nvidia-driver to choose newer kernel versions.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Users that do install nvidia-dkms-compat will be alerted through the usual apt methods that there is an incompatibility with a newer kernel.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Regardless of how this is solved, I think an important goal is that apt-get upgrade should work properly when nvidia-kernel-dkms is installed;</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">this means that a newer kernel on which nvidia does not build will not be installed by default, not appear as a candidate upgrade version.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">thanks,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">--jack<br></div></div></body></html>