PACKAGESITE spam

[Julien Laffaye]

On 12/21/2013 9:14 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 03:10:26PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:05:38PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 07:35:56PM +0100, dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
>>>> I've just installed a very recent -CURRENT, and now I'm performing a big portupgrade procedure. I get the following message spammed a lot:
>>>>
>>>> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository configuration file
>>> Yeah, I noticed that spam along with the spam that is being
>>> spewed to /var/log/messaage, e.g.,
>>>
>>> Dec 21 10:27:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libwpg-0.2.2 installed
>>> Dec 21 10:44:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: OpenEXR-2.1.0_1 installed
>>> Dec 21 10:47:36 laptop-kargl pkg-static: vigra-1.9.0_4 installed
>>> Dec 21 10:51:00 laptop-kargl pkg-static: lp_solve-5.5.2.0 installed
>>>
>>> Can you (portmgr) please mute these messages?
>>>
>> echo 'SYSLOG: no' >> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
>>
> It did not ask how to stop this stupidity.  I asked to have
> this stupidity stopped by default.  The spewing of this
> information in /var/log/messages provides NOTHING.  Please
> turn it off by default.
>

Obviously, if it is on by default, others have different opinions on 
this subject...