Tip: Dealing with nvidia-driver-195.22 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

I haven't migrated to FreeBSD 8.0 as I came across visual artefacts while running 8.0, nvidia-driver-195.22 and Enemy Territory on a test install.

To update my installed ports I use for the most part csup to update the ports collection and sysutils/portmaster to actually update the ports with new versions.

Recently nvidia-driver-195.22 hit the Ports tree and upon running portmaster -a I found out that Nvidia's latest driver version requires FreeBSD-STABLE or FreeBSD-CURRENT. Guess who's running RELEASE?

Symptoms:

• % su
• # csup -L 2 -h cvsup2.uk.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
• # portmaster -L

===>>> nvidia-driver-185.18.36
===>>> New version available: nvidia-driver-195.22
===>>> This port is marked IGNORE
===>>> requires fairly recent FreeBSD-STABLE, or FreeBSD-CURRENT

• # portmaster -a

===>>> Launching child to update nvidia-driver-185.18.36 to nvidia-driver-195.22

===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver
===>>> This port is marked IGNORE
===>>> requires fairly recent FreeBSD-STABLE, or FreeBSD-CURRENT

===>>> If you are sure you can build it, remove the
IGNORE line in the Makefile and try again.

===>>> Update for nvidia-driver-185.18.36 failed
===>>> Aborting update

Solution:

• # cd /var/db/pkg/nvidia-driver-185.18.36/
• # touch +IGNOREME
• # portmaster -a

===>>> Launching child to update nvidia-driver-185.18.36 to nvidia-driver-195.22

===>>> nvidia-driver-185.18.36 has an +IGNOREME file

===>>> Update anyway? [n]

• answer "n"
  

Now portmaster -a ignores updates to the nvidia-driver port until the issue is fixed or I move to 8.0 ;)