Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 06:52:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports Message-ID: <4A07BD27.8080805@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <26face530905101649kbb21d03ud620c15f16483c3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530905101649kbb21d03ud620c15f16483c3f@mail.gmail.com>
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Kelly Jones wrote:
> I often use "make -DBATCH install" to install ports.
>
> Problem: many ports spew out a warning/todo message after you install
> them (eg, "you must manually create an x user" or something).
>
> Since ports install "recursively", I miss most of these messages.
>
> Can I tell ports to store these messages for me somewhere?
>
> Obviously, I can "make -DBATCH install > /tmp/outfile", but that'll
> log all the "install", "test", etc commands that I don't want to see:
> I just want to see the warnings at the end of each install.
portmaster will save up package messages and display them all at the
end of the session. I believe a similar feature is planned for portupgrade
but as far as I know it hasn't been released yet.
In any case, you can redisplay the pkg-message for any installed port
by:
% pkg_info -Dx portname
Cheers,
Matthew
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