From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 6 18:55:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68E5106566B for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E418FC08 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BF07E818 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:55:46 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 20:55:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-BETA3; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <4AA3D2E7.9070409@onetel.com> <946140ad0909061021g1d0ca8daie78502f71c009ddf@mail.gmail.com> <4AA3FCFE.7000008@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <4AA3FCFE.7000008@onetel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909062055.31041.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Subject: Re: how to display pkg-message X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:55:36 -0000 On Sunday 06 September 2009 20:18:38 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Thanks for the info. I read man ports, quite a lot of bsd.ports.mk plus > list archives If you want to see the dynamically generated pkg-message of a *port*, before building/installing it (f.e. to identify what gotchas there are), use the following: make -C /usr/ports/category/portname WRKDIR=/tmp apply-slist && cat /tmp/pkg- message -- Mel