Pause pkg install messages

[Miroslav Lachman]

Johannes Lundberg wrote on 2018/05/24 11:03:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:27 AM Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 24 May 2018 09:08:17 +0100
>> Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In addition to that it would be nice (if it's not already done) to
>>> store this information in a log file somewhere so that one can
>>> revisit and see what needs to be manually configured for each
>>> installed package.
>>
>> I have this in syslog.conf:
>>
>>   !pkg,pkg-static
>>   *.*                                             /var/log/pkg.log

I think only changes are logged, not messages:

Apr 26 23:50:22 maja pkg: p5-DBI reinstalled: 1.641 -> 1.641
Apr 26 23:50:22 maja pkg: mariadb101-client upgraded: 10.1.31 -> 10.1.32_2
Apr 26 23:50:22 maja pkg: libnghttp2 upgraded: 1.31.0 -> 1.31.1

> Thanks for the tip. I'll use this.
> However, someone who knows about this probably know how to manually
> configure their system already.
> 
> I want to make sure first timers and newbies don't miss important messages
> on how to configure the system.
> 
> Often we get inquires about stuff that is clearly described in the pkg
> message and bug reports that are a consequence of wrong configuration.
> How can we make this more clear so that it is not missed?

As Eugene already noted - syscons has scrollback buffer. Did you tried 
"Scroll Lock" on your keyboard?

If you need to re-show message of any installed package, "pkg info -D" 
(or pkg info --pkg-message) is your friend. Nothing is lost. You can 
view it anytime.


# pkg info -D mariadb101-server
mariadb101-server-10.1.33:
Always:
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Remember to run mysql_upgrade (with the optional --datadir=<dbdir> flag)
the first time you start the MySQL server after an upgrade from an
earlier version.

MariaDB respects hier(7) and doesn't check /etc and /etc/mysql for
my.cnf. Please move existing my.cnf files from those paths to
/usr/local/etc and /usr/local/etc/mysql.

This port does NOT include the mytop perl script, this is included in
the MariaDB tarball but the most recent version can be found in the
databases/mytop port

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Miroslav Lachman