portmaster: printing messages that do not come from pkg-message files

Julien Laffaye kimelto at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 17:14:21 UTC 2010


2010/1/2 Nikola Lečić <nikola.lecic at anthesphoria.net>:
> Hello,
>
> portmaster's feature to print collected pkg-message files after
> successful installation is very useful. However, there are many ports
> that echo messages from inside Makefile, usually in post-install phase
> (but not exclusively there).
>
> A simple question: would it be possible (or better, would it be
> desirable) to collect that text as well and to include it in the final
> output in the same way it is done with pkg-messages?
>

Hi,

It's better to correct these ports to make them use pkg-message, so it
will be printed by portmaster *and* pkg_add (dont forget packages !)

Best,
Julien


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