32 bit glx support on 364.15

Floris jkfloris at dds.nl
Fri Apr 15 20:53:26 UTC 2016


Op Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:27:28 +0200 schreef Luca Boccassi  
<luca.boccassi at gmail.com>:

> On 15 April 2016 at 00:00, Floris <jkfloris at dds.nl> wrote:
>> Op Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:48:42 +0200 schreef Luca Boccassi
>> <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 00:32 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-04-15 00:22, Floris wrote:
>>>> > Thanks for your answer. The new libglx-nvidia0:i386 package was
>>>> > missing.
>>>>
>>>> So it's working now?
>>>>
>>>> > Maybe there should be a dependency with libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386?
>>>>
>>>> Probably, but only indirect. I would need to dig deeper into this ...
>>>> next week.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep it's tricky, as the real dependency is actually the other way
>>> around, with libglx-nvidia0 that depends on libgl1-nvidia-glx:
>>
>>
>> From https://packages.debian.org/en/stretch/libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386:
>>
>> Package: libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386
>> NVIDIA binary OpenGL 32-bit libraries
>>
>>  This metapackage helps the automatic installation of the 32-bit NVIDIA
>> OpenGL libraries when installing libgl1-nvidia-glx on amd64 with foreign
>> architecture i386 enabled.
>>
>> So why not use this package?
>
> Yes I was thinking the same, if we keep libglx-nvidia0 as the
> top-level dependency then switching that meta-package to depend on it
> rather than on libgl1-nvidia-glx would do the trick. Unfortunately the
> names would not match anymore.
>
> Maybe we could rename that package to libglx-nvidia0-i386 and have it
> provide libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 to maintain backward compatibility.
> Andreas, what do you think?
>
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi

Maybe it is an idea to choose a more generic name for the meta package.  
Something everybody understands. When you install the meta package all 4  
(libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libglvnd-nvidia:i386 libglx-nvidia0:i386 and  
libglx0-nvidia:i386) 32bit dependencies are pulled in. I don't know a good  
name but something like: nvidia-i386-for-amd64

Floris



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