@Ashark the pages you linked, have download links to deb files that include the 50002
number. Since the original deb is a package that includes all files for AMDGPU(Pro) and ROCm, I think it's better to keep one version string for all of them, and that's the version string from the amdgpu-install
file, which is what people use to install it on official supported distros. In the end, what AUR helpers or makepkg
does is create a package that uses this versioning scheme to make a similar package to the Ubuntu / CentOS one.
My assumption for why they are doing this is that while the human readable driver release is 21.50.2, that gives them the freedom to silently release an update when something goes wrong, without the need to create new pages for it. But maybe it's wrong assumption. I'm open to discussing it further and removing both numbers if there is feedback from an AMD employee (maybe we can post a question on their mailing list), but I think 21.50.2.50002-1
will be following their current reasoning for package versioning.
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nho1ix commented on 2023-12-29 08:43 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-10 07:13 (UTC) by nho1ix)
Note for anyone who has a Polaris GPU (Radeon RX 5xx) debugging issues with this package; Packages that use OpenCL like clinfo or davinci-resolve-studio will need you to downgrade opencl-amd to 1:5.7.1-1 as well as amdgpu-pro-oglp to 23.10_1620044-1 to avoid coredumps & segfaults.
DVR would not open unless these 2 packages were downgraded (along with their dependencies). Had to figure it out the hard way after hours using valgrind and rebooting over and over. Hopefully someone else will not have to pull their hair out trying to resolve their issue.