Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:27:26 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to display pkg-message Message-ID: <4AA3F0FE.2060806@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4AA3D2E7.9070409@onetel.com> References: <4AA3D2E7.9070409@onetel.com>
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Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which are =
> displayed when installing ports please. I thought it was some variant o=
f=20
> make showinfo but I can't find one that works. I am assuming that if=20
> <port>/files/pkg-message.in exists the this make target would show a=20
> result.
Once the port is installed, you can do:
% pkg_info -Dx portname
What is probably less known is that if you have the package tarball, you =
can
run pkg_info on it *without* it being installed:
% pkg_info -D ./portname.tbz=20
There isn't a specific make target for displaying pkg-message -- it's=20
generally done as part of the post-install: target, but that target also
typically runs any of the scripts that should be bundled with the pkg.
That's things like creating a UID to own files or processes, which is not=
necessarily something you would want to happen when just trying to see
some messages.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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