message at the end of a pkg install

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Jun 9 20:30:02 UTC 2014


On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Mike. wrote:

>
> On 6/9/2014 at 6:16 PM Mike Clarke wrote:
>
> |On Monday 09 June 2014 13:01:42 Mike. Wrote:
> |
> |> So my question is:  how can I view that important message
> |from the
> |> port maintainer to me after it scrolls off the screen,  is it
> |> persistent anywhere?
> |
> |pkg info -D pkgname
> |
> =============
>
>
> Thank-you, that's it.
>
> btw, I don't see that on the man page for pkg, is it debugging-only
> type command?

pkg has a man page, but subcommands have their own man pages named with 
a dash.  So 'man pkg-info' shows that one.  Another way to get there is 
'pkg help info'.


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