From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 10:19:13 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 2373316A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 10:19:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from etustar.ze.tum.de (etustar.ze.tum.de [129.187.39.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF5D43D2D for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 10:19:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estartu@etustar.ze.tum.de) Received: from etustar.ze.tum.de (estartu@localhost.ze.tu-muenchen.de [127.0.0.1]) by etustar.ze.tum.de (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j42AItIF084166; Mon, 2 May 2005 12:18:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from estartu@etustar.ze.tum.de) Received: (from estartu@localhost) by etustar.ze.tum.de (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id j42AIrm8084165; Mon, 2 May 2005 12:18:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from estartu) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:18:53 +0200 From: Gerhard Schmidt To: Sam Lawrance Message-ID: <20050502101853.GA83865@augusta.de> References: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de> <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 10:19:13 -0000 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= =20 > > plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because= =20 > > 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= ncy=20 > > ports an display them at the end. >=20 > 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= =20 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 Estartu=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Schmidt | Nick : estartu IRC : Estartu | Fischbachweg 3 | | PGP Public Key 86856 Hiltenfingen | E-Mail: estartu@augusta.de | auf Anfrage/ Germany | | on request --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: /jGq3xUpcqiUqljF8bZrcUVTRmC5cAn9 iQCVAwUBQnX+iwzx22nOTJQRAQHexQP+Owv9ENGncAANJcP3a3a8HUadaK3xiWoD sV9Ru1D4TXM66iOfTZVCuJptdGuU2nPlfHt4s5mkwXX35Nm4D83uX/WZG4hpLIg9 F1sZEMLCGdLQbu4QBOwMTAVm7ffOKyrSbmtm2RLGMGMPIF2rx31c7JnFli4brIFZ 6PrL8KmMh7k= =XeC9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--