[OpenIndiana-discuss] update conflicts, what happened?

[Marcel Telka]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:05:38AM +0200, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> 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.

It is easy to stay with older nvidia driver (e.g. nvidia-390).  Just
uninstall mate_install and/or server_install and you should be able to
upgrade your system while keeping older nvidia driver.

Re mediator: no idea.

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