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Date:      Sun, 6 Sep 2009 12:21:43 -0500
From:      Randy Belk <randy.belk@gmail.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to display pkg-message
Message-ID:  <946140ad0909061021g1d0ca8daie78502f71c009ddf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle
M=F8ller<freebsd-questions@k-moeller.dk> wrote:
> Looking for that feature to :)
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wro=
te:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which are
>> displayed when installing ports please. I thought it was some variant of
>> make showinfo but I can't find one that works. I am assuming that if
>> <port>/files/pkg-message.in exists the this make target would show a
>> result.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Chris
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This is explained in the pkg_info man page.

To Show the install-message file for the installed package
postfix-2.6.3,1 you would enter "pkg_info -D -x postfix | less"

Please read the man page! Also install ports-mgmt/bpkg, it's an awsome util=
ity


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