Bug 110962

Summary:	Wrong dependencies cause force dependency on amdgpu-dkms
Product:	DRI	Reporter:	Andrew Shark <ashark>
Component:	DRM/AMDgpu-pro	Assignee:	Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	110956, 111268

Description Andrew Shark 2019-06-22 03:19:56 UTC

19.20-812932 release for Ubuntu

amdgpu-pro(-hwe) and amdgpu-pro-lib32 depend on amdgpu(-hwe), but actually they should depend on amdgpu-lib(-hwe) (just like open variant packages). Because of that even when running installer with --no-dkms, it still is in packages list (because amdgpu(-hwe) depends on it).
Is it intentional or just a mistake?
I think this is a mistake, because if you want force dependency on amdgpu-dkms with pro stack, you would make all other checks in amdgpu installer script. But because user giver "--no-dkms", such checks are skipped there.

Also, I was repacking amdgpu-pro packages (ubuntu archive) to Arch Linux. Am I correct, that amdgpu-dkms package was made with Ubuntu LTS slowness in mind, and is absolutely unneeded for Arch Linux? Am I right that I do not loose any functionality abilities (maybe that allows you to watch gpu's load, like wattman) even for pro stack if I omit amdgpu-dkms?

Comment 1 Eric Engestrom 2019-06-22 15:49:03 UTC

Ubuntu packaging issue; this needs to be reported to Ubuntu instead.

Comment 2 Eric Engestrom 2019-06-22 17:57:19 UTC

TIL AMD does its support via our bugzilla...

Comment 3 Jeremy Newton 2019-07-29 20:29:20 UTC

This configuration is not supported. PRO unconditionally requires dkms.

I will try to update the documentation.

Comment 4 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 08:00:18 UTC

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