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Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:38:37 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia-driver vs. mesa-libs
Message-ID:  <ae6e7482-a31a-746a-9df6-79440561d748@gmx.de>
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Am 20.09.20 um 21:38 schrieb Russell L. Carter:
> On 2020-09-20 12:30, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> Hi Russel,
>>
>> There is a PR opened already:
>>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D249448
>>
>> You could try the patch or wait until x11/nvidia-driver* is updated.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Rainer
>
> Ok, that's fine.=C2=A0 I can wait quite a bit and pull down
> the update when the fix lands.
>
> I was previously somewhat tempted, occasionally, to automate
> the weekly 'pkg upgrade' but in this case that would have been
> a big oops.

The approach would be to check first what your automated "pkg upgrade"
would do (there is a dry-run option, pkg upgrade -n) and then have it
balk if any uninstalls would happen, or otherwise proceed. Someone more
knowledgable about pkg might know a more efficient way.




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