pkg-msgs collect to end of install
Sam Lawrance
boris at brooknet.com.au
Mon May 2 02:47:08 PDT 2005
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:29 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done a lot of updating and installing of ports lately. I have seen
> plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because
> the port which printed them where installed as a dependency.
>
> It might by a good idea to collect all the messages displayed by depenancy
> ports an display them at the end.
I thought about this briefly a couple days ago. I had an idea that it
might be useful if things like pkg-message could be optionally emailed
to a chosen user. Especially handy for ports that require attention
post-installation, and describe this in their pkg-message.
More information about the freebsd-ports
mailing list