NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu

Please put Provides fields mimicking Debian packages

Bug #608917 reported by Tomasz Rybak
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NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I am trying to package PyOpenCL and PyCUDA for Ubuntu (see #607407). In Debian there is many different packages containing NVIDIA-related files, while Ubuntu contains two packages: nvidia-current and nvidia-current-dev.
If Ubuntu packages would provide packages like those in Debian, it would be trivial to include Debian packages into Ubuntu.

I would like to have:

nvidia-current:
Provides:
 - libcuda1
 - nvidia-libcompiler1
 - nvidia-libopencl1
 - nvidia-opencl-common

nvidia-current-dev:
 - libcuda1-dev
 - nvidia-libcompiler1-dev
 - nvidia-libopencl1-dev

Thanks

Daniel Hahler (blueyed)
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

The boinc package in Debian introduces two new packages to pull in libraries for GPU computation.
The first one would need to be satisfied by nvidia-graphics-drivers / nvidia-current.
To avoid any delta in this regard, a "Provides:" would be required here.

  Package: boinc-nvidia-cuda
  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, boinc, libcuda1, libcuda1-ia32 [amd64], ia32-libs [amd64]

  Package: boinc-amd-opencl
  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, boinc, fglrx-driver, amd-libopencl1

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Tomasz Rybak (bogomips-post) wrote :

Would it not make more sense to have
Package: boinc-amd-opencl
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, boinc, opencl-icd

This way you could have any OpenCL implementation, and from my experiments any OpenCL library can be used (although best compile with AMD OpenCL).

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Steffen Möller (moeller-debian) wrote :

Hm. Maybe. I thought that this way it would be even easier for someone to know what to pick. I would rather add another boinc-nvidia-opencl package at the very moment. And: for anyone with a working set of dependencies the regular boinc package is already sufficient.

I admit not to have completely grasped the role of OpenCL with Nvidia hardware, yet.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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