Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:56:57 -0700 From: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/Packages and release engineering Message-ID: <54DF9A79.6070601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDtXw4C9mESiYxVWZ2SXfu4ZLk-L4pPxi2gUXHat-6b2XA@mail.gmail.com> References: <54DF89BE.6010005@complete.org> <CAKE2PDtXw4C9mESiYxVWZ2SXfu4ZLk-L4pPxi2gUXHat-6b2XA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/14/2015 11:36 AM, jungle Boogie wrote: >> >Another small question: I ran something like "pkg install xserver-xorg >> >digikam vim screen bash" the other day in my FreeBSD test VM. I >> >discovered quite a bit of information was printed out at the end from >> >various packages, which scrolled off the screen. Is there a way to >> >re-display all that information? It seems if it's important enough to >> >display, it's important enough to display long enough to read;-) One way to save all that stuff that scrolls off the screen is to run the pkg command as follows: script /tmp/pkg.out pkg install xserver-xorg digikam vim screen bash 2>&1 exit now you can view /tmp/pkg.out for all the stuff that scrolled off the screen.
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