pkg-msgs collect to end of install
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Mon May 2 03:21:33 PDT 2005
On Mon, 02 May 2005 19:47:18 +1000
Sam Lawrance <boris at brooknet.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
This could be ${USER} (at least in csh) as opposed to id -urn so we
won't clobber root's mailbox when su'ed
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