On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:52:53PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > >The --- around it show that this is stuff that gets shown at the end > >of pkg_add. You *have* to read that stuff. > > I *want* to read this stuff, but I *cannot see it* if it flashes by. And > then I do not know which packages installed and which of those actually > contained such a message. > > (And thanks for your generally favourable reply !) > > >You *can* recall such messages later. pkg_info -M will show the message > >again. > > I know. Only: once the package is installed, the link is lost. I am sure > I was clear enough on this and don't have to repeat this.
You have an issue with the way you do stuff. If you install enough packages to have these scroll by and get lost, then use tools to store the output, like script and friends... I'm at a loss, I *never* had to deal with this issue, I always have something like the scrollbar of my xterm to get back to the messages... And the --- pkgname line is there to tell you what's what. Well, tell you what, I'll get pkg_add and pkg_delete to print a summary of what changed (+pkg1 pkg2 -pkg1 pkg2). That's quite enough. You know you can do pkg_info -M /var/db/pkg/* and get all install notices displayed, don't you ?
