Marc Espie wrote:
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...
No fun on ports, I tell you. I still think the 'hook' doing it for me is much easier. > 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...
Everyone works differently. Quite frequently there is no xterm. On my servers never. And then I sit in front of them ...
Well, tell you what, I'll get pkg_add and pkg_delete to print a summary of what changed (+pkg1 pkg2 -pkg1 pkg2).
Oh, that would be something ! And once you have it, why not add three lines to *display* pkg_info -M /var/db/pkg/foo_s/+DISPLAY if these exist ? Then I can seat myself in front of an xterm (I usually don't) and do what I actually proposed, at least conceptually.
That's quite enough. You know you can do pkg_info -M /var/db/pkg/* and get all install notices displayed, don't you ?
Not so horribly interesting, I am afraid. I prefer your earlier suggestion as above.
Thanks ! Uwe
