how to display pkg-message

[Randy Belk]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Randy Belk<randy.belk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle
> Møller<freebsd-questions at k-moeller.dk> wrote:
>> Looking for that feature to :)
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which are
>>> displayed when installing ports please. I thought it was some variant of
>>> make showinfo but I can't find one that works. I am assuming that if
>>> <port>/files/pkg-message.in exists the this make target would show a
>>> result.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Chris
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>>
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 This is explained in the pkg_info man page.

 To Show the install-message file for the installed package
 postfix-2.6.3,1 you would enter "pkg_info -D -x postfix | less"

 Please read the man page! Also install ports-mgmt/bpkg, it's an awsome utility


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