[OpenIndiana-discuss] update conflicts, what happened?

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 12/04/2023 07:16, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 07:33:32PM -0400, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>> root at openindiana:~# pkg update
>> Creating Plan (Checking for conflicting actions): /
>> pkg update: The following packages all deliver driver actions to nvidia:
>>
>>   pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia@525.105.17,5.11-2023.0.0.0:20230331T112122Z
>>   pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia-390@390.157,5.11-2022.0.0.0:20221123T085801Z
>>
>> These packages cannot be installed together. Any non-conflicting subset
>> of the above packages can be installed.
>
> We switched the default NVIDIA driver from nvidia-390 to nvidia
> recently.  Since both nvidia-390 and nvidia packages cannot be installed
> together you need to manually uninstall nvidia-390 first (possibly with
> few other packages that depends on nvidia-390[*]) to get the system
> updated and then install nvidia package back (together with other
> packages you uninstalled previously).
>
> [*] I think the list includes these packages: mate_install,
> server_install, x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video.
>
> HTH.
>

Since that is a real nuisance if you have an older graphics card that
depends on 390 availability: Is it possible to deliver the NVIDIA
package via a mediator ?
All of our cards are unsupported with 525.x.
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