Might an UPDATING entry be appropriate for a MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION bump?

Tatsuki Makino tatsuki_makino at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 5 23:31:16 UTC 2020


Hello.

In my case,
-x \*-kmod-\[0-9gv\] is added to portmaster because all packages that
install kernel modules contain -kmod in their names. This excludes *-kmod.
And when they are upgraded, I won't be installing them right away.

Then to install them I write PORTS_MODULES in src.conf.
PORTS_MODULES=\
        graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod\
        graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod

They are created at the same time as the kernel.

Best regards.


David Wolfskill wrote on 2020/10/05 21:54:
> When I rebuild FreeBSD (stable/12) on my laptop, I also rebuild a ports
> module (x11/nvidia-driver), since the laptop has an Nvidia graphics
> card.
> 
> However, a couple of times within the last few days, the kernel build
> has failed because I normally wait to update ports until after I have
> built and rebooted the newly-built base OS... and "?ports" includes
> ports-mgmt/pkg.
> 
> In each case (so far), I have then updated ports-mgmt/pkg, then
> re-started the base OS build/install.
> 
> I believe that it would be helpful to have an UPDATING entry reflect
> that "evasive action" is required when MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION is bumped.
> 
> Or, perhaps, I'm going about this all wrong...?  If so, please let me
> know a better way.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Peace,
> david
> 


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