On 24.05.2018 15:08, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > Hi > > The first thing me and probably many other do after install is > pkg install xxx yyy zzz > from console (meaning no scrollback buffer). > > With xorg and friends this means hundreds of packets. After install all the > pkg messages are display and most of sometimes very valuable information is > just scrolled away. > > Is there an easy way to fix* this by piping the output through less or > something to pause for each screen so that the messages just aren't > scrolled away? > > In addition to that it would be nice (if it's not already done) to store > this information in a log file somewhere so that one can revisit and see > what needs to be manually configured for each installed package. > > *by fix I mean something that does not put the burden on the user.
Installation/deinstallation of packages logged by default to /var/log/messages. Syscons console has scrollback buffer by default. If vt(4) has not, that's regression after syscons and should be fixed in the vt. Also, one can have, for tcsh: alias pkg 'script -a /var/log/pkg.log pkg-static' So "pkg install xxx yyy zzz" adds fulls output to specified file. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
