pkg-message files and portupgrade (Re: Qemu crash...)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:10:59PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:57:08PM +0100, Anders Troback wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have some problems with qemu-0.8.2s.20061102!
> > > 
> > > When I start Qemu the Qemu console appears and crash:
> > > 
> > > Bad system call (core dumped)
> > > 
> > > I have tried on both 6.1 and 6.2!
> > > 
> > > Anyone running Qemu on 6.2 or 6.1?
> > 
> > You need to include AIO support in your kernel (or as a module).  The
> > port should be updated to mention this.
> 
> As has already been said this is mentioned in the pkg-message, ppl
> just dont seem to look there... (I just answered the second pr about
> this too :)  Is there a better place?

The problem is that people don't see pkg-message when it scrolls past
briefly in the build spam :)

Maybe tools like portupgrade can be smarter about this and collect any
pkg-messages encountered during a build sequence and re-display them
at the end of the build.

Kris
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