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[Bug 1129409] Re: Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers should indicate whether they provide libcuda.so.1, libOpenCL.so.1, etc.

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From: David Jones <1129409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 04:53:28 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 1129409 <1129409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I have created my own PPA for now. I have reservations about it being
the right fix, but it works for now

ppa:dwrj87/fglrxfix

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Title:
  Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers should indicate whether they provide
  libcuda.so.1, libOpenCL.so.1, etc.

Status in boinc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in nvidia-cuda-toolkit package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-310-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-313-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in pycuda package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in pyopencl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in starpu-contrib package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in viennacl package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in nvidia-cuda-toolkit package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The nvidia-cuda-toolkit package needs to depend on a minimum version of the CUDA library included in nvidia-graphics-drivers.
  The current Debian version of nvidia-cuda-toolkit (5.0.35-4) does this on Debian systems by checking the version of libcuda1 and on Ubuntu systems by checking the version of nvidia-current, nvidia-curent-updates, nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310.

  It would greatly simplify maintenance of packages building against
  libcuda.so.1 and libOpenCL.so.1 if the nvidia-graphics drivers could
  provide virtual packages that reflect the API level, for example,
  libcuda-5.0-1 and libopencl-1.2-1.

  It was decided that the nvidia drivers packages will provide libcuda-5.0-1, libopencl1 and opencl-icd (LP: #763457) virtual packages. Additionally, nvidia-*.shlibs would contain:
  libOpenCL  1 libopencl1
  libcuda    1 libcuda-5.0-1
  libGL 1 libgl1

  Similarly, the amd drivers package will provide libopencl1 and opencl-icd virtual packages, as well as an .shlibs containing:
  libOpenCL  1 libopencl1
  libGL 1 libgl1

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