Ports/Packages and release engineering

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 14 19:27:51 UTC 2015


On 14/02/2015 17:45, John Goerzen wrote:
> Another small question: I ran something like "pkg install xserver-xorg
> digikam vim screen bash" the other day in my FreeBSD test VM.  I
> discovered quite a bit of information was printed out at the end from
> various packages, which scrolled off the screen.  Is there a way to
> re-display all that information?  It seems if it's important enough to
> display, it's important enough to display long enough to read ;-)

pkg info -D pkgname

will show you the package message again.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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