Am 18.03.20 um 15:18 schrieb Chris: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:27:29 +0000 Bob Eager r...@tavi.co.uk said > >> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:28:49 -0700 >> Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com> wrote: >> >> > OK I'm a by ports make install as a rule. But I needed to >> > spin up a box quickly, and decided to use pkg(8). xorg, >> > and another port (package) I installed, dumped some >> > important information after the install. I stripped the >> > text from the console/terminal, and tried to paste it into >> > a fresh file. But the new graphics drivers don't allow >> > that sort of thing (graphics vs text mode). So I was left >> > with mostly gibberish. I need to get that information back. >> > I just guessed that pkg message <port-name> might do it. >> > But no joy. How can I retrieve that information? >> >> Simple! >> >> pkg info -D pkgname >> >> (or pkg info --pkg-message pkgname) > --pkg-message, argh... I was *so* close! > Thanks, Bob. Really appreciated! > and for the record. I *did* read the man page. But as others > were also inclined to suggest; I thought the output would be > related to *query*
I do actually prefer the version I suggested based on pkg query, since I find it quite hard to see message boundaries in the pkg info output. With pkg query you can introduce any kind of separators (even multi-line) in the format string (and also print the origin and other information along with the message). Regards, STefan _______________________________________________ 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"
