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Date:      Sun, 6 Sep 2009 20:55:30 +0200
From:      Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to display pkg-message
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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



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