From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 6 21:13:34 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 F113B106566C for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B428FC17 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eco.config (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23ECF804D823DE; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:13:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4AA425F6.9020508@onetel.com> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:13:26 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Flynn References: <4AA3D2E7.9070409@onetel.com> <946140ad0909061021g1d0ca8daie78502f71c009ddf@mail.gmail.com> <4AA3FCFE.7000008@onetel.com> <200909062055.31041.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200909062055.31041.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:13:35 -0000 Mel Flynn wrote: > 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 That's exactly what I was trying to do though the other replies gave me an alternative way. thanks very much Chris