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Date:      Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:47:06 +0100
From:      Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@freebsd.org>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>,  Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        dt71@gmx.com, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PACKAGESITE spam
Message-ID:  <52B5FE4A.7080709@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131221201403.GB60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <52B5DF8C.5050204@gmx.com> <20131221200538.GA60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20131221201026.GB1730@glenbarber.us> <20131221201403.GB60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On 12/21/2013 9:14 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 03:10:26PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:05:38PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 07:35:56PM +0100, dt71@gmx.com wrote:
>>>> I've just installed a very recent -CURRENT, and now I'm performing a big portupgrade procedure. I get the following message spammed a lot:
>>>>
>>>> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository configuration file
>>> Yeah, I noticed that spam along with the spam that is being
>>> spewed to /var/log/messaage, e.g.,
>>>
>>> Dec 21 10:27:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libwpg-0.2.2 installed
>>> Dec 21 10:44:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: OpenEXR-2.1.0_1 installed
>>> Dec 21 10:47:36 laptop-kargl pkg-static: vigra-1.9.0_4 installed
>>> Dec 21 10:51:00 laptop-kargl pkg-static: lp_solve-5.5.2.0 installed
>>>
>>> Can you (portmgr) please mute these messages?
>>>
>> echo 'SYSLOG: no' >> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
>>
> It did not ask how to stop this stupidity.  I asked to have
> this stupidity stopped by default.  The spewing of this
> information in /var/log/messages provides NOTHING.  Please
> turn it off by default.
>

Obviously, if it is on by default, others have different opinions on 
this subject...



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