Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:58:49 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "danfe@FreeBSD.org" <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, "x11@FreeBSD.org" <x11@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: x11/nvidia-driver incompatible with portmaster? Message-ID: <4E0FBEC9.2000304@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4E0FBC2A.9090809@FreeBSD.org> References: <4E0796A6.3040909@missouri.edu> <4E07A18B.2010205@FreeBSD.org> <4E0F90C6.5020704@missouri.edu> <4E0FB406.4040308@FreeBSD.org> <4E0FB86B.7020700@missouri.edu> <4E0FBC2A.9090809@FreeBSD.org>
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On 07/02/2011 07:47 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/02/2011 17:31, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> On 07/02/2011 07:12 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >>> On 07/02/2011 14:42, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >>>> Are x11-server/x11-server and x11/nvidia-driver together incompatible >>>> with portmaster? >>>> >>>> If you install x11-server/xorg-server, and then install >>>> x11/nvidia-driver, then "pkg_delete -f" and reinstall xorg-server, then >>>> it seems to me that x11/nvidia-driver will be broken, because >>>> xorg-server will overwrite lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libgl.*, and >>>> nvidia-driver also writes these files. >>>> >>>> I know that x11/nvidia-driver restores the libgl.* files when it is >>>> deinstalled. But it is portmaster's use of "pkg_delete -f" that concerns >>>> me. >>> >>> This is a known problem, and has nothing to do with portmaster. If you >>> deinstall nvidia-driver first it restores the xorg-server files to the >>> prior state. If you do xorg-server first, doing the install of >>> nvidia-driver with -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER (without deinstalling first) >>> should do the trick. >>> >>> >>> hth, >>> >>> Doug >>> >> >> Yes, I knew the solution. >> >> But I was really offering this as a reason to have some kind of >> "NO_REINSTALL" flag, or something similar. Something that tells >> portmaster that it shouldn't deinstall xorg-server without deinstalling >> nvidia-driver first. > > It wouldn't be a NO_REINSTALL case (unless I'm missing something) but > you're right that we don't have a way to represent "Don't deinstall this > port if that port is installed." > You are correct. It wouldn't be NO_REINSTALL. But would you guys be interested in some creative way to make this work? Perhaps xorg-server could be modified to first check "pkg_info | grep nvidia-driver", and if this comes up true, then the xorg-server port and package would not install libgl.*. I could do something like this, but before I work on it and put forth a proof of concept, I would first like to hear good reasons why I this might be a bad idea. Thanks, Stephen
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