PACKAGESITE spam

[Greg Rivers]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, 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.
>

Do you really feel that strongly about it?  Having a record of changes to 
the system has always seemed like a feature to me...

-- 
Greg