Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:31:39 -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: <4E0FB86B.7020700@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4E0FB406.4040308@FreeBSD.org> References: <4E0796A6.3040909@missouri.edu> <4E07A18B.2010205@FreeBSD.org> <4E0F90C6.5020704@missouri.edu> <4E0FB406.4040308@FreeBSD.org>
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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. Thanks, Stephen
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