Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Kelly Jones
<kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> I often use "make -DBATCH install" to install ports.
>
> Problem: many ports spew out a warning/todo message after you install
> them (eg, "you must manually create an x user" or something).
>
> Since ports install "recursively", I miss most of these messages.
>
> Can I tell ports to store these messages for me somewhere?
>
> Obviously, I can "make -DBATCH install > /tmp/outfile", but that'll
> log all the "install", "test", etc commands that I don't want to see:
> I just want to see the warnings at the end of each install.
>

Have a look at:
   /usr/ports/<category>/<port>/pkg-message

Some ports have the message output in the Makefile instead.

-- 
Glen Barber