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Date:      Mon, 9 Jun 2014 14:29:59 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: message at the end of a pkg install
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406091428180.73209@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <201406091320050077.005988C0@smtp.24cl.home>
References:  <201406091301420205.0048B4A0@smtp.24cl.home> <2301965.bT1K660ZIP@curlew.lan> <201406091320050077.005988C0@smtp.24cl.home>

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On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Mike. wrote:

>
> On 6/9/2014 at 6:16 PM Mike Clarke wrote:
>
> |On Monday 09 June 2014 13:01:42 Mike. Wrote:
> |
> |> So my question is:  how can I view that important message
> |from the
> |> port maintainer to me after it scrolls off the screen,  is it
> |> persistent anywhere?
> |
> |pkg info -D pkgname
> |
> =============
>
>
> Thank-you, that's it.
>
> btw, I don't see that on the man page for pkg, is it debugging-only
> type command?

pkg has a man page, but subcommands have their own man pages named with 
a dash.  So 'man pkg-info' shows that one.  Another way to get there is 
'pkg help info'.



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