Looking at the Sunday update of Package aurora-dx-nvidia-open · GitHub I notice something unexpected, namely 23 new packages xxx-srpm-macros. Just being curious. What is the reason that they were added?

We have seen this few times, I think they are some dependencies that sometimes get pulled in. They should be harmless and propably will get removed in a later update.

Yes, they are harmless. I am still curious and try to find out which package triggered it. :grin:

[image] Latest stable-daily installs SRPM macros and other rpm tools Aurora I just wanted to ask if it was intentional to install (Added) a bunch of SRPM macros and other rpm dev tools that I received today, as part of the current stable-daily update? I don’t …

Thanks for the link. Indeed, it seems that the cause is akmod

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inffy October 20, 2025, 6:44am 4

here is a previous discussion about it. But we haven’t pinned kernel this time, so its something else that is pulling them. But propably related to akmods anyway

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