Re: unexpected problem from the kmod repo

Andriy Gapon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13/11/2025 01:17, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 03:28:28PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> Main package repo-s and kmod repo-s are updated at independent cadences.
>>> Also, there can be build failures that can introduce further
>>> unpredictability into package update cycles.
>>> So, it can happen and has happened recently that nvidia packages got
>>> updated in one place but remained at an older version in the other.
> 
> Hope this is an extraordinary situation in preparation of new
> *.0-Release. I'm not using official pkg repos, but IIRC, nvidia
> driver things on main repo are usually built quickly after commits.

There is nothing extraordinary about this situation, it's a natural consequence 
of packages being in different repositories which are built independently.
It's bound to happen again.
So, it's better to prevent the desynchronization by means of pkg(8).


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Andriy Gapon
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