From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 10:21:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4CC16A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 10:21:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4E1043D4C for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 10:21:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 10032 invoked from network); 2 May 2005 10:14:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 2 May 2005 10:14:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 1671 invoked by uid 89); 2 May 2005 10:33:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 2 May 2005 10:33:41 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8597711411; Mon, 2 May 2005 13:21:28 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 13:21:28 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Sam Lawrance Message-ID: <20050502132128.58fa6543@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> References: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de> <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Gerhard Schmidt cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-msgs collect to end of install X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 10:21:33 -0000 On Mon, 02 May 2005 19:47:18 +1000 Sam Lawrance wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:29 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've done a lot of updating and installing of ports lately. I have seen > > plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because > > the port which printed them where installed as a dependency. > > > > It might by a good idea to collect all the messages displayed by depenancy > > ports an display them at the end. > > I thought about this briefly a couple days ago. I had an idea that it > might be useful if things like pkg-message could be optionally emailed > to a chosen user. Especially handy for ports that require attention > post-installation, and describe this in their pkg-message. This could be ${USER} (at least in csh) as opposed to id -urn so we won't clobber root's mailbox when su'ed -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"