Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 06:49:51 -0700 From: "Chris H" <portmaster@BSDforge.com> To: "Johannes Lundberg" <johalun0@gmail.com> Cc: "Eugene Grosbein" <eugen@grosbein.net>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pause pkg install messages Message-ID: <dcd0b000a2f5652ea2c2ca12be66cf0a@udns.ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <5B067A5A.40706@grosbein.net>
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On Thu, 24 May 2018 15:39:54 +0700 "Eugene Grosbein" <eugen@grosbein=2Enet> s= aid > On 24=2E05=2E2018 15:08, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > > Hi > >=20 > > The first thing me and probably many other do after install is > > pkg install xxx yyy zzz > > from console (meaning no scrollback buffer)=2E > >=20 > > With xorg and friends this means hundreds of packets=2E After install all= the > > pkg messages are display and most of sometimes very valuable informatio= n is > > just scrolled away=2E > >=20 > > Is there an easy way to fix* this by piping the output through less or > > something to pause for each screen so that the messages just aren't > > scrolled away? > >=20 > > In addition to that it would be nice (if it's not already done) to stor= e > > this information in a log file somewhere so that one can revisit and se= e > > what needs to be manually configured for each installed package=2E > >=20 > > *by fix I mean something that does not put the burden on the user=2E >=20 > Installation/deinstallation of packages logged by default to > /var/log/messages=2E > Syscons console has scrollback buffer by default=2E > If vt(4) has not, that's regression after syscons and should be fixed in = the > vt=2E >=20 > Also, one can have, for tcsh: alias pkg 'script -a /var/log/pkg=2Elog > pkg-static' > So "pkg install xxx yyy zzz" adds fulls output to specified file=2E +1 I simply fire $ script ~/pkg-install-session build, or pkg install $ exit Then grep(1) the results for desired info=2E It also allows me to discover any (serious) warnings that may have been emitted=2E HTH --Chris >
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