Solved Can I use pkg while keeping an older version of nvidia-driver?

aaronbaugher

aaronbaugher

I use x11/nvidia-driver-340, installed from ports, because I have an older video card that the default x11/nvidia-driver no longer supports. As long as I install everything from ports, it works fine, so apparently all the ports tools understand that the older version handles that dependency.

But today I thought I'd use 'pkg upgrade' on a couple of packages that take a very long time to build, and it wanted to install nvidia-driver along with the package I specified. Is there a way to tell pkg to be happy with the version of nvidia-driver I already have? Or am I making a mistake by trying to mix ports and packages this way, and should stop that? Thanks.
 
Just for my own understanding, I also use nvidia-driver-340 (although mine was installed from pkg, not ports).

I have run pkg upgrade, and even though nvidia-driver (a newer driver) has been available for some time, pkg upgrade had not touched it.

I have assumed that from pkg's perspective nvidia-driver and nvidia-driver-340 are separate packages - that pkg doesn't consider (the newer) nvidia-driver to be an update nvidia-driver-340.

Is that an incorrect assumption?
 
mikepwagner said:
I have assumed that from pkg's perspective nvidia-driver and nvidia-driver-340 are separate packages - that pkg doesn't consider (the newer) nvidia-driver to be an update nvidia-driver-340.
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You assumed correctly.
 
jdakhayman said:
You will need to tell pkg to lock the port
Code: 
pkg lock "name of package to lock"
This will stop pkg from upgrading it.

jda
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Will this tell pkg to completely ignore the package or simply inform it that the package is "masked" and should not be calculated during upgrades? I know that the latter would cause pkg to print errors while calculating install/upgrade transactions.
 
pkg lock will prevent any modification of the locked package, including blocking any operation that would modify that package. please see pkg-lock(8) for details.
 
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