ui_msg

[C. Florian Ebeling]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <brad at pixilla.com> wrote:
> Is there anyone else who thinks it would be nice to collect ui_msg and
> display the messages at the very end of the port run?
>
> Or make it an option? Or is there a way to do this already?

+1.

This one is on my personal wish list for a while now.
Ideally these would end up in the users email inbox,
imho, but a separate log file would do as well. Email
might be tricky as well, since most people are not really
prepared to just have running MTA.

Message should still very much be plain text style/email in that
they give instructions on what to do after a certain
server was installed or upgraded, and similar things.
The most common thing is probebly the pointer to the
launchd plist.

Florian

>
> Maybe even write them to a ui_message log along with a time stamp and the
> original port command.
>
> So if you install something that has a bunch of dependencies, and especially
> if you use the -v or -d flags you can read all the messages at the end.
>
> Removing and rebuilding things to test perl5.8 as an example:
> port -f uninstall installed
> port -k install mysql5-devel @5.1.30_1+partition+server apache2 php5
> @5.2.8_1+apache2+imap+macosx+mysql5+pear+pspell+readline+sqlite+tidy perl5.8
> @5.8.9_2+db+gdbm+shared+threads php5
> @5.2.8_1+apache2+imap+macosx+mysql5+pear+pspell+readline+sqlite+tidyport -vk
> install mysql5-devel @5.1.30_1+partition+server apache2 php5
> @5.2.8_1+apache2+imap+macosx+mysql5+pear+pspell+readline+sqlite+tidy perl5.8
> @5.8.9_2+db+gdbm+shared+threads php5
> @5.2.8_1+apache2+imap+macosx+mysql5+pear+pspell+readline+sqlite+tidy
> ---> normal output without us_msg ............
>
> and at the end of the port run
>
> --->. Message from port mysql5-devel
> ******************************************************
> * In order to setup the database, you might want to run
> * sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db5
> * if this is a new install
> ******************************************************
> ---> Message from port foo
> ******************************************************
> * foo suggests you do something
> ******************************************************
>
> //Brad
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