Retrieving installation notes

ucsdboy

ucsdboy

Hello,

Is there a way to re-read the installation notes, after a successful portmaster or make install? I made the mistake of letting some important post-installation configuration notes slip by.

Thanks!
 
You mean the pkg-message that some ports/packages print? You can read them using pkg info -D apache22 for example.
 
You can probably generate an entire catalog of that sort of information. By
cd /var/db/pkg
find -s . -type f -name '+COMMENT' -exec cat $name '{}' \; -print >>../CATALOG
You should end up with a complete listing in the file /var/db/CATALOG

HTH

--Chris
 
Um... those files are not in /var/db/pkg any more. They are likely in local.sqlite, and can be shown as SirDice shows, or possibly with pkg query. With a fancy query or a little piping, it should be possible to get the pkg-message of only the packages installed most recently.
 
wblock@ said:
Um... those files are not in /var/db/pkg any more. They are likely in local.sqlite, and can be shown as SirDice shows, or possibly with pkg query. With a fancy query or a little piping, it should be possible to get the pkg-message of only the packages installed most recently.
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Umm... Yes they are. Well, on the one I'm writing this from, anyway. In fact I actually proofed the script before posting it.
But I'm currently writing this from RELENG_9. Which apparently enjoyed ports-mgmt/portmaster and possibly pkg(7), before pkg(8) took over the system.

So, YMMV :)

--Chris
 
OK a little more thought on how to get around the seeming limitations pkg(8) imposes over pkg(7). I came up with the following:
Get a list of everything installed, and direct it to a file handle that can later be manipulated, and fed/incorporated to a script.
pkg info >./GETLIST
Now that we have our list (I had 1660, on the box I experimented on). We find we're also blessed with the one-liner description provided in the ports Makefile. That's all well, and good for gathering quick information. But is a *major* nuisance for our needs. I used my editor to perform an RE, which simply stripped everything that started with a space, to the end of line (including the space). So that all I had left was the list of ports, one on each line. It'd be trivial to run the file against sed(1), or using perl(1)'s powerful RE to accomplish the same. But I'm out of time. So I'll leave that up to the reader. Unless I find the time later. :)
EDIT
The Oracle (wblock@), someone far more versed in the FreeBSD documentation than I, has spoken! I can now happily declare that the operation is far more trivial than I had imagined. Thanks wblock@!
/EDIT
OK now that you've got a file with one port name on each line. We'll want to create a shell script out of it. Here's what I did (extremely condensed list), edit the file we just got GETLIST, and add the following:
Code: 
#!/bin/sh -

fls="GentiumPlus-1.510_1
GraphicsMagick-1.3.20,1
ImageMagick-6.8.9.8_1,1
Lohit-20130612
ORBit2-2.14.19_1
OpenEXR-2.2.0_3
OpenSP-1.5.2_2
Thunar-1.6.3_2
a2pdf-1.13
a2ps-4.13b_6"

for name in $fls

do
  pkg info -D $name >>./CATALOG

done
Which, when run (don't forget to [man=1]chmod[/man] +x the script first)
gave me the following, in the file named CATALOG:
Code: 
GentiumPlus-1.510_1:
To use these fonts, add the following line to the "Files" section of
xorg.conf:

   FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/GentiumPlus/"

Users of older versions of X may additionally have to make sure that
the freetype module is loaded.  Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error
messages.  If freetype is required, add the following line to the
"Modules" section of xorg.conf:

   Load "freetype"



GraphicsMagick-1.3.20,1:
ImageMagick-6.8.9.8_1,1:
Lohit-20130612:
To use these fonts, add the following line to the "Files" section of
xorg.conf:

   FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Lohit/"

Users of older versions of X may additionally have to make sure that
the freetype module is loaded.  Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error
messages.  If freetype is required, add the following line to the
"Modules" section of xorg.conf:

   Load "freetype"


ORBit2-2.14.19_1:
OpenEXR-2.2.0_3:
OpenSP-1.5.2_2:
Thunar-1.6.3_2:
a2pdf-1.13:
a2ps-4.13b_6:
Maybe not the most elegant. But it'll get you where you need to go. :)

All the best.

--Chris
 
wblock@ said:
pkg info -q

Really, there is a wealth of options in the pkg man pages.
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Ya know. I really did take the time to read both man pkg, as well as pkg help, hoping to find such an option. But (apparently) overlooked that. It's not like I didn't want to find such an option. :p

Thanks for the heads-up, wblock@. I'll update the script, and post.

--Chris
 
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