commit: bdeb0e2d2ed62e5289e65b27977ecf3e3f9b1879 Author: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Wed Apr 22 09:28:15 2020 +0000 Commit: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Wed Apr 22 09:28:15 2020 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=bdeb0e2d
Add 2020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo.org> ...020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions.en.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/2020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions/2020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions.en.txt b/2020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions/2020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5aeb856 --- /dev/null +++ b/2020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions/2020-04-22-opencl-upgrade-file-collisions.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Title: Potential file collisions during OpenCL upgrade +Author: Marek Szuba <[email protected]> +Posted: 2020-04-22 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: app-eselect/eselect-opencl + +OpenCL support in Gentoo is now being migrated to having all implementations +operate through an ICD loader (dev-libs/ocl-icd or dev-libs/opencl-icd-loader) +installed directly into /usr rather than using eselect-opencl to switch +between implementations, with updated loader ebuilds having just been released +to the public. Unfortunately although the upgrade process will automatically +uninstall app-eselect/eselect-opencl, it will not remove the symbolic links to +libOpenCL.so created by this tool in library directories because those links +are not owned by the package in question. + +For everyone using the default Gentoo configuration of collision protection +(FEATURES='-collision-protect protect-owned'), this should cause no trouble +because this configuration allows the overwriting of orphaned files. +Obviously, systems with collision protection completely disabled (not +recommended but technically possible) will not be affected either. However, +if your system is configured for full collision protection +(FEATURES=collision-protect), it will be necessary to manually remove those +links + + rm -i /usr/lib{,64}/libOpenCL.so* + +before running the upgrade.
