[ATrpms-users] problem with smart and nvidia?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 12:45:10PM -0500, john bray wrote:
> smart keeps trying to play with nvidia packages in a strange way.  i
> cant' quite figure out what's going on.  i blew away the smart cache and
> xml in /var/lib/smart and forced it to do all up new.  and nothing
> changed.
> 
> here's what i currently have installed:
> 
> [root at junior alsa]# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.14-15.fc5.at
> nvidia-graphics8774-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at
> nvidia-graphics8774-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at
> nvidia-graphics8774-libs-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at
> nvidia-graphics-1.0.8774-13.at
> nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-5.fc5.at
> nvidia-graphics8774-devel-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at
> nvidia-graphics-devel-1.0.8774-13.at
> 
> 
> but smart keeps wanting to:
> 
> upgrade to nvidia-graphics-legacy-devel 2:1.0.7184-13.at 
>  from  nvidia-graphics8774-devel 1:1.0_8774-75.fc5.at

Hm, that's not the desired behaviour, but it turns out to be the
expected (e.g. bug in Obsoletes)

> what am i missing?

Nothing, these Obsoletes should better become Conflicts. The best
workaround for now is to remove nvidia*-devel packages
altogether. They are only needed for rebuilding mplayer, so unless you
need to build against nvidia libs you can safely remove them.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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