Collecting pkg-message files?

[Wesley Shields]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:46:26PM -0500, Wesley Shields wrote:
> One of the things that often trips up new users is the fact that
> pkg-message files scroll past their buffers when installing something
> via ports.  As such, they sometimes miss important post-installation
> steps which need to be taken in order to finish the install.  I've
> attached a patch I've come up with to collect all the pkg-message files
> during an install and display them at the end.
> 
> In order to not be in violation of POLA I only collect the messages and
> display them if SHOW_ALL_PKG_MSGS is defined.  This way it won't get in
> the way of any automated tools, and in some cases it may reduce the
> complexity of those tools if they provide native support for this.
> 
> I've barely tested this, but I'm due to get a new laptop in a few weeks
> and plan to run this patch while I'm building and installing everything
> I normally use.  I'm curious if there is anyone else out there willing
> to test this out before I submit a PR for it once it proves stable
> during my new laptop install.  Please let me know what you think and if
> you run into any problems with it.
> 
> -- WXS

I've had one or two people report back on this.  I've attached what I
believe should fix their problem and ran it through a couple more builds
of a handful of ports.  If you want to test it out I'm attaching an
updated version here.

-- WXS
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