[ubuntu-x] -nvidia upgrade issues

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:10:23AM +0100, Alberto Milone wrote:
> On Thursday 05 Nov 2009 08:44:46 Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Btw, in poking around in dkms.conf I noticed this:
> > 
> > PACKAGE_VERSION="185.18.31"
> > 
> > Shouldn't that be 185.18.36?  Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of
> > this file?
> > 
> > Bryce
> > 
> 
> Hi Bryce,
> 
> dkms.conf is generated by dkms.conf.in which in turn relies upon the version 
> that we set in debian/upstream_info which is correct:
> 
> RELEASE=185.18.36

Ah okay, so then if dkms.conf is automatically generated, does it need
to be present in the source package?  Sounds like it's not causing harm
though so maybe not a big deal.

> I know that the packaging could be a lot simpler than it currently is. I wish 
> I had the time to work on it ;)

Yeah, perhaps at UDS we could sit down for an hour and just go through
and document some of the high points, like we did with fglrx.  These
binary drivers always have unique bits to their packaging.

Bryce