more verbosity

[Kristofer Henriksson]

To my knowledge, aliases do not work with sudo, they only match text
at the beginning of the command.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Jeremy Lavergne
<jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
>>>> Is there a general conf setting I can change
>>>> so that port output is always verbose during the
>>>> build (or just a specific phase)? It is nice that
>>>> port spews out the compilation when a compile time
>>>> error is hit but while working up packaging I would
>>>> like to see the actual build in detail.
>>>
>>> There's no conf setting; you must use the "-d" switch every time.
>>>
>>> sudo port -d install something
>>
>> Due to the volume of information printed by the -d switch, its use can
>> cause you to overlook important messages ports sometimes print out. For
>> developing your own portfiles using -d is great and helpful, but for general
>> use, I recommend you install and upgrade ports without the -d flag, and if
>> you encounter an error, then clean the affected port and try again with -d
>> to see the full error.
>
> You might consider making an alias in your .profile (or .bashrc ... or
> whatever).
>
> alias port='port -d'
>
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