From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu May 24 11:45:43 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83DAEEA513 for ; Thu, 24 May 2018 11:45:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pkeusem@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x233.google.com (mail-io0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5249585F92 for ; Thu, 24 May 2018 11:45:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pkeusem@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x233.google.com with SMTP id o185-v6so1908801iod.0 for ; Thu, 24 May 2018 04:45:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language; bh=JlpmbLW2VT8FNHcOytUTV7W9FEC7bAe1VJ+FibYRYjg=; b=onAg/c4YEaUSTuIr1ZJKCYyTwF/DcczToWwHNrDbr1GQCzBvTMivwKFUuI5QnwMld+ 3OqqaJEuQDnWvuvFo/gM+APIUp49N0x0v00AWB3eN+n8vNwsWmlBxHbOcVGBBEiuJvn5 66wAl4B5DCUDpF8AjOyvtYYv/QfmBiaLbNBDPMrQ1MS7IgNdhhRqyGgG0tSMCYqjkMEy llLxvqFTw3a/ooujyQ/1m8Fe4d+ZifONqsxdY/vQlgye01s+t2lYUwC9MJ19I3IVwN5D x5ApShwFEjSq28DwKnMYiCWEJokGUirKbQTPsNX9/g55zHgeBz+c4S8pbpZWae2Jj3gI GeRQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language; bh=JlpmbLW2VT8FNHcOytUTV7W9FEC7bAe1VJ+FibYRYjg=; b=M+XrLTzmDf3s2zwqfEUb4zzVXKQA6c3ha2TrcT1HJ04PdEBNybvOTnWf7V+xOzI4/y oK0x+6pGz2+IxClSlIY4qO+yK5TD2wanfw6z8YsVfJAkFQXmhpJwl25kP/P7XedL39es a3rZ/zn/tqMojArkDieJ7jY+G2RVSLLD+epinb7MyftXAwsJm4gqQYsGFlgNUxlcjuJc HQs57BSs/yxtNOoA6ljeajM0D/dMFhCqOA4hoAIFlnscc/5yFBTmM3fsCNbKssM6kVD8 EqsTyImQ6Gbipz7/iskT3sHV369F3FCuk3lh14EWHyX450EX02+gU0YcqUkSm5sTYG4r IEMA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwdM/XIZVV6g/TZYv6dyqqxdtlVCs7kEhrMjWoflsAqzFqk++rAW zAyz8gpDQXST+SyorBJFwYGNLw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZqsaUU23Nmt7cu/LjqNdFXIuhxWOeoSAogsc3bqj6NBr7nTIW2GqmYUEKZHvq4SFjZ7VGwDcg== X-Received: by 2002:a6b:ab82:: with SMTP id u124-v6mr5890438ioe.234.1527162342660; Thu, 24 May 2018 04:45:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.16.175.153] (173-25-76-100.client.mchsi.com. [173.25.76.100]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id u2-v6sm11064133iol.6.2018.05.24.04.45.41 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 24 May 2018 04:45:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Pause pkg install messages To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: From: Paul Keusemann Message-ID: <2716f86b-e25b-784f-4500-a47e04605731@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 06:45:40 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.26 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 11:45:44 -0000 On 05/24/18 03:08, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > Hi > > The first thing me and probably many other do after install is > pkg install xxx yyy zzz > from console (meaning no scrollback buffer). > > With xorg and friends this means hundreds of packets. After install all the > pkg messages are display and most of sometimes very valuable information is > just scrolled away. > > Is there an easy way to fix* this by piping the output through less or > something to pause for each screen so that the messages just aren't > scrolled away? > > In addition to that it would be nice (if it's not already done) to store > this information in a log file somewhere so that one can revisit and see > what needs to be manually configured for each installed package. > > *by fix I mean something that does not put the burden on the user. I use screen to record the console session. > > Cheers > > /Johannes > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Paul Keusemann pkeusem@gmail.com 4266 Joppa Court (952) 894-7805 Savage, MN 55378