Bug#802310: nvidia configuration changed w.r.t. bumblebee ... (was: Re: Bug#802246: Can't modprobe -r nvidia, rmmod works)

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-10-19 23:35, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>> Hmm, looking at it again, this needs to be fixed in bumblebee-nvidia.
>>
>> Package: bumblebee-nvidia
>> Depends: glx-alternative-nvidia (>= 0.6.92)
>>
>> (note: glx-alternative-nvidia does not exist in Ubuntu)
> 
> This is going to be an issue I'm afraid. It would mean forking the
> packaging branch. Vincent, what do you think about this?

No forking. Substvars and scripts being customized at build time should
be sufficient, see nvidia-cuda-toolkit (same source package for Ubuntu
and Debian).

> Also, given that the hook is run in the postinst, doesn't that mean
> bumblebee would need to pre-depend on glx-alternative-nvidia? Otherwise
> it might not be configured by the time bumblebee's postinst runs, right?

postinst is fine, all dependencies are satisfied, only preinst would
require a pre-depends.


Andreas