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FS#19717 - [nouveau-firmware] packaging mistake?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Nelson Chan (icarus-c) - Saturday, 05 June 2010, 12:02 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 06 June 2010, 12:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
the package nouveau-firmware package added on 2010-06-04 is marking nouveau-drm-lts as dep,
this results in pulling nouveau-drm-lts which also pull kernel26-lts on a non-LTS system (kernel26 instead of kernel26-lts)

[root@hermes ~]# pacman -Si nouveau-firmware
Repository : extra
Name : nouveau-firmware
Version : 20091212-3
URL : http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : nouveau-drm-lts
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 37.34 K
Installed Size : 492.00 K
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Architecture : any
Build Date : Tue 18 May 2010 05:48:54 AM EST
MD5 Sum : a5a66e5a3e09f8ea30ae1112339e19b3
Description : nvidia opensource X driver - firmware needed for NV40 and above




This task depends upon

Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 06 June 2010, 12:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Nelson Chan (icarus-c) - Saturday, 05 June 2010, 12:03 GMT
note that the previous nouveau-firmware package marks nouveau-drm instead of nouveau-drm-lts

[nelson@hermes ~]$ pacman -Qi nouveau-firmware
Name : nouveau-firmware
Version : 20091212-2
URL : http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : nouveau-drm
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 476.00 K
Packager : AndyRTR <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Architecture : any
Build Date : Wed 30 Dec 2009 05:41:14 PM EST
Install Date : Sun 31 Jan 2010 03:58:54 AM EST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : nvidia opensource X driver - firmware needed for NV40 and above

Comment by Øyvind Heggstad (Mr.Elendig) - Saturday, 05 June 2010, 12:24 GMT
The 1000 taco question is: should nouveau-firmware really depend on anything? After all, unless I am mistaken, the driver uses the firmware, not the other way around.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 05 June 2010, 22:29 GMT
The firmware should not have any deps whatsoever.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 06 June 2010, 07:13 GMT
The only package which needs this package will be nouveau-drm-lts, newer kernels will generate the firmware on their own.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 06 June 2010, 12:46 GMT
the firmware is already recommended in nouveau-drm-lts as an optdepends. so I'm removing the dep from the firmware pkg.

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