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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:41:19 -0600
From:      Bigby James <bigby.james@dimthoughts.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports/Packages and release engineering
Message-ID:  <20150215194119.GA4369@workbox.Home>
In-Reply-To: <54DF9A79.6070601@gmail.com>
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> On 02/14/2015 11:36 AM, jungle Boogie wrote:
> One way to save all that stuff that scrolls off the screen is to run 
> the  pkg
> command as follows:
> 
> script /tmp/pkg.out
> pkg install xserver-xorg digikam vim screen bash 2>&1
> exit
> 
> now you can view /tmp/pkg.out for all the stuff that scrolled off the 
> screen.

'pkg info -D <packag_name>' will do the trick, too. ;) pkg(8) is very
well-documented at this point, though it's still undergoing development.

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