From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Mar 18 07:07:52 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE63427ECDB for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::24b:4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48j1MX2k5Jz4Xlv; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from Stefans-MBP-449.fritz.box (p200300CD5F0A2E0011EDD2865C324243.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:cd:5f0a:2e00:11ed:d286:5c32:4243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: se/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9F958794; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:07:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: pkg: how to retrieve the messages ports emit after install? To: portmaster@BSDforge.com, freebsd-ports References: <281fa89277227cfdc1e35c912b2315fa@udns.ultimatedns.net> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_E=c3=9fer?= Message-ID: <5cd885cb-fe1e-efbd-0091-1a4acd818577@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:07:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <281fa89277227cfdc1e35c912b2315fa@udns.ultimatedns.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: de-DE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:07:52 -0000 Am 18.03.20 um 07:28 schrieb Chris: > OK I'm a by ports make install as a rule. But I needed to > spin up a box quickly, and decided to use pkg(8). xorg, > and another port (package) I installed, dumped some > important information after the install. I stripped the > text from the console/terminal, and tried to paste it into > a fresh file. But the new graphics drivers don't allow > that sort of thing (graphics vs text mode). So I was left > with mostly gibberish. I need to get that information back. > I just guessed that pkg message might do it. > But no joy. How can I retrieve that information? You may be looking for some variant of: # pkg query -- '--- %n-%v ---\n%M' Regards, STefan