Trouble upgrading ports collection

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Saturday 03 December 2005 06:18, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:20:30PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > Thanks for the info, is this really the recommended fix???
> >
> > Remove nvidia-driver port, then upgrade xorg-clients. After that you can
> > reinstall nvidia-driver.
> >
> > I read the above as xorg-clients conflicts with nvidia-driver, if it was
> > set this way here is what portmanager would do:
> >
> > 1) when upgrading xorg-clients finds conflicting port nvidia-driver
> > installed and removes it unless user chooses otherwise before 5 minute
> > timeout
> >
> > 2) Upgrade xorg-clients
> >
> > Athe this point something would have to have a dependency on
> > nvidia-driver for it to be pulled back in automatically else the user is
> > going to need to install it manaually...  Well I can see how this
> > situation is causing problems anyways.......
> >
> > Has this issue been resolved yet? From reading your references it seems
> > like this fixed the problem with xdriinfo.c:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76257
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: anholt
> > State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 30 01:24:24 GMT 2005
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > A patch has been committed to fix this.
> >
> > But I saw no other solution to handling the nvidia port.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> I agree it seems a trifle convoluted, and yes, in the vast majority
> cases, portmanager does the right thing.  However, for this one (in my
> experience, at least), it couldn't handle it.  I don't remember removing
> the nvidia drivers, but I think I reinstalled portions of the XOrg
> subsystem, in particular the libs.  As I said, though, I don't remember
> exactly how I got it all working again...
>
> Not much help, I'm afraid - I just wanted to point the OP at the threads
> on the other list (which I read only sporadically) in case they proved
> helpful.
>
> As to whether it's fixed yet, I really couldn't say - I belong firmly in
> the camp of end users, not developers or testers.
>
> A big thanks for portmanager - it's nice not to have to wrestle with the
> package db all the time!
>
> Dan


You were of great help, the OP's system failed to upgrade exactly
as you predicted so I told him to try removing the nvidia port then
manually install it after portmanager finished. Lets hope that works.

-Mike