pkg-msgs collect to end of install

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Mon May 2 03:21:33 PDT 2005


On Mon, 02 May 2005 19:47:18 +1000
Sam Lawrance <boris at brooknet.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:29 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I've done a lot of updating and installing of ports lately. I have seen 
> > plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because 
> > the port which printed them where installed as a dependency. 
> > 
> > It might by a good idea to collect all the messages displayed by depenancy 
> > ports an display them at the end.
> 
> I thought about this briefly a couple days ago.  I had an idea that it
> might be useful if things like pkg-message could be optionally emailed
> to a chosen user.  Especially handy for ports that require attention
> post-installation, and describe this in their pkg-message.

This could be ${USER} (at least in csh) as opposed to id -urn so we
won't clobber root's mailbox when su'ed


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