Re: (re)viewing messages/notes from installation

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Perkins
On 2012/05/07 15:09, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2012-05-07 21:07 , Mark Perkins wrote: >> So now my question is "why"? Even though my tree is newer than what is >> installed, shouldn't I be able to see things relevant to my installation? One small clarification. Everything about dbus appears to

Re: (re)viewing messages/notes from installation

2012-05-07 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2012-05-07 21:07 , Mark Perkins wrote: > So now my question is "why"? Even though my tree is newer than what is > installed, shouldn't I be able to see things relevant to my installation? The 'port notes' command is always evaluating the current Portfile in the ports tree. There is no way to

Re: (re)viewing messages/notes from installation

2012-05-07 Thread Richard DeLaurell
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mark Perkins wrote: > > So now my question is "why"? Even though my tree is newer than what is > installed, shouldn't I be able to see things relevant to my installation? > Those are the kind of insights only available from an oracular source (trans. "I think Rya

Re: (re)viewing messages/notes from installation

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Perkins
I ran it both ways. Same result, as I would expect. But I think I found the source of the problem, though I don't understand it * I have dbus @1.4.18_0 is installed * I recently did a 'port sync', so the port tree has -> port info dbus dbus @1.4.20 (devel) * On an

Re: (re)viewing messages/notes from installation

2012-05-07 Thread Richard DeLaurell
Running "port notes dbus" gives me this: dbus has the following notes: # Startup items have been generated that will aid in # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled # by default. Execute the following comman

(re)viewing messages/notes from installation

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Perkins
Greetings, Messages/notes often fly by unnoticed when printed during installation, especially for ports that are built as dependencies of others. The note about startupitem for dbus is a topical example. 8-) How do I (re)view any such messages? I *thought* that port notes would do the