Pause pkg install messages

Paul Keusemann pkeusem at gmail.com
Fri May 25 11:40:04 UTC 2018



On 05/24/18 06:45, Paul Keusemann wrote:
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> On 05/24/18 03:08, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> The first thing me and probably many other do after install is
>> pkg install xxx yyy zzz
>> from console (meaning no scrollback buffer).
>>
>> With xorg and friends this means hundreds of packets. After install all the
>> pkg messages are display and most of sometimes very valuable information is
>> just scrolled away.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to fix* this by piping the output through less or
>> something to pause for each screen so that the messages just aren't
>> scrolled away?
>>
>> In addition to that it would be nice (if it's not already done) to store
>> this information in a log file somewhere so that one can revisit and see
>> what needs to be manually configured for each installed package.
>>
>> *by fix I mean something that does not put the burden on the user.
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> I use screen to record the console session.

Wow.  Where was my mind?  Script, not screen.
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>> Cheers
>>
>> /Johannes
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