x11/nvidia-driver incompatible with portmaster?

[Doug Barton]

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."


Doug

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