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

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:28:49 -0700
Chris <portmaster at BSDforge.com> wrote:

> 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?

Simple!

  pkg info -D pkgname

(or pkg info --pkg-message pkgname)

There are more complicated ways...