Bug#1028307: rocminfo and other packages have the same name as packages in the rocm repository
Hi Lorenzo,
On Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:15:03 +0100 Lorenzo Bertini
<lorenzobertini97@gmail.com> wrote:
> rocminfo, rocm-device-libs and rocm-cmake packages have the same
names as their
> counterparts in the "official" repo in
https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/. When I add
> this repository, apt tries to install the system version, so I have
to manually
> force the version the other packages in the repo need.
>
> How should this be handled?
The tentative plan is that upstream will add some sort of prefix or
suffix to their package names. The details and exact timeline are TBD,
but will likely occur some time next year.
Sincerely,
Cory Bloor
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