Chris Whitehouse wrote:
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.
Once the port is installed, you can do: % pkg_info -Dx portname What is probably less known is that if you have the package tarball, you can run pkg_info on it *without* it being installed:% pkg_info -D ./portname.tbz There isn't a specific make target for displaying pkg-message -- it's generally done as part of the post-install: target, but that target also
typically runs any of the scripts that should be bundled with the pkg.
That's things like creating a UID to own files or processes, which is not
necessarily something you would want to happen when just trying to see
some messages.
Cheers,
Matthew
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