Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:54:39 -0600 (CST) From: Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-current@tharned.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, dt71@gmx.com Subject: Re: PACKAGESITE spam Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312211450130.5630@badger.tharned.org> In-Reply-To: <20131221201403.GB60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <52B5DF8C.5050204@gmx.com> <20131221200538.GA60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20131221201026.GB1730@glenbarber.us> <20131221201403.GB60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 03:10:26PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:05:38PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 07:35:56PM +0100, dt71@gmx.com wrote: >>>> I've just installed a very recent -CURRENT, and now I'm performing a >>>> big portupgrade procedure. I get the following message spammed a lot: >>>> >>>> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a >>>> repository configuration file >>> >>> Yeah, I noticed that spam along with the spam that is being spewed to >>> /var/log/messaage, e.g., >>> >>> Dec 21 10:27:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libwpg-0.2.2 installed >>> Dec 21 10:44:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: OpenEXR-2.1.0_1 installed >>> Dec 21 10:47:36 laptop-kargl pkg-static: vigra-1.9.0_4 installed >>> Dec 21 10:51:00 laptop-kargl pkg-static: lp_solve-5.5.2.0 installed >>> >>> Can you (portmgr) please mute these messages? >>> >> >> echo 'SYSLOG: no' >> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf >> > > It did not ask how to stop this stupidity. I asked to have this > stupidity stopped by default. The spewing of this information in > /var/log/messages provides NOTHING. Please turn it off by default. > Do you really feel that strongly about it? Having a record of changes to the system has always seemed like a feature to me... -- Greg
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