more virtual packages for providing libcuda.so.1 and libOpenCL.so.1

Alberto Milone alberto.milone at canonical.com
Thu Jul 11 11:11:55 UTC 2013


On 11/07/13 12:39, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying, Andreas.
> 
> Alberto, can you add nvidia-304.shlibs to the Ubuntu packaging then, please?

I can do this in both 13.10 and 12.04 or just in 13.10. I don't think it
should break anything in 12.04.

> Also, since you no longer allow different versions of Nvidia drivers to
> be co-installed, do libcuda.* and libOpenCL.* need to be installed in
> /usr/lib/nvidia-304?
> If they were installed in /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) we wouldn't
> have to do things like we did in pycuda [1] in order to locate them.
> 
> [1]
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/131896714/pycuda_2012.1-1ubuntu2_2012.1-1ubuntu3.diff.gz

No sorry, I won't do this as it would make backporting packages to 12.04
more painful than it already is.

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