Kelly Jones wrote:
I often use "make -DBATCH install" to install ports.Problem: many ports spew out a warning/todo message after you install them (eg, "you must manually create an x user" or something). Since ports install "recursively", I miss most of these messages. Can I tell ports to store these messages for me somewhere? Obviously, I can "make -DBATCH install > /tmp/outfile", but that'll log all the "install", "test", etc commands that I don't want to see: I just want to see the warnings at the end of each install.
portmaster will save up package messages and display them all at the
end of the session. I believe a similar feature is planned for portupgrade
but as far as I know it hasn't been released yet.
In any case, you can redisplay the pkg-message for any installed port
by:
% pkg_info -Dx portname
Cheers,
Matthew
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