pkg-msgs collect to end of install

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 2 May 2005 12:18:53 +0200
Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at augusta.de> wrote:

> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:29 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > I've done a lot of updating and installing of ports lately. I have seen 
> > > plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because 
> > > the port which printed them where installed as a dependency. 
> > > 
> > > It might by a good idea to collect all the messages displayed by depenancy 
> > > ports an display them at the end.
> > 
> > I thought about this briefly a couple days ago.  I had an idea that it
> > might be useful if things like pkg-message could be optionally emailed
> > to a chosen user.  Especially handy for ports that require attention
> > post-installation, and describe this in their pkg-message.
> 
> Mail would work for singe Workstations but for several servers this would 
> end up in getting serveral mails with the same messages. And the risk of
> losing some important information would grow with the number of Mails. 
> 
> Much simpler. Collect all pkg-msg in a tmp file an display this tempfile 
> with ${PAGER} at the end of the make command. 

On the other side mail is something that lasts, while console output is
more tricky; for example what if you are in a screen(1) or the text is
larger that console buffer ? Anyway this would be optional and set via a
know in make.conf, right ?


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