Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:18:53 +0200 From: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@augusta.de> To: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-msgs collect to end of install Message-ID: <20050502101853.GA83865@augusta.de> In-Reply-To: <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> References: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de> <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain>
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:29 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi,=20
> >=20
> > I've done a lot of updating and installing of ports lately. I have seen=
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> > plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because=
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> > the port which printed them where installed as a dependency.=20
> >=20
> > It might by a good idea to collect all the messages displayed by depena=
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> > ports an display them at the end.
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> 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.
Mail would work for singe Workstations but for several servers this would=
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end up in getting serveral mails with the same messages. And the risk of
losing some important information would grow with the number of Mails.=20
Much simpler. Collect all pkg-msg in a tmp file an display this tempfile=20
with ${PAGER} at the end of the make command.=20
Bye
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