pkg: how to retrieve the messages ports emit after install?

Stefan Eßer se at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 18 07:07:52 UTC 2020


Am 18.03.20 um 07:28 schrieb Chris:
> OK I'm a by ports make install as a rule. But I needed to
> spin up a box quickly, and decided to use pkg(8). xorg,
> and another port (package) I installed, dumped some
> important information after the install. I stripped the
> text from the console/terminal, and tried to paste it into
> a fresh file. But the new graphics drivers don't allow
> that sort of thing (graphics vs text mode). So I was left
> with mostly gibberish. I need to get that information back.
> I just guessed that pkg message <port-name> might do it.
> But no joy. How can I retrieve that information?

You may be looking for some variant of:

# pkg query -- '--- %n-%v ---\n%M'

Regards, STefan


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