Re: Disable pkg_install output during upgrade

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2023-05-09 at 11:55 BST, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> Am Tue, May 09, 2023 at 10:09:08AM +0100 schrieb Jonathan Perkin:
> > Our upgrade process is effectively pkg_delete && pkg_add, and this means
> > that any package that is either upgraded or refreshed will print both
> > install and deinstall script messages, as well as output MESSAGE files, on
> > every update.
>
> For pkg_add -u, we can actually be smarter and provide
> old and new version to the +INSTALL/+DEINSTALL script, so that it can
> itself decide to skip messages. I'm actually against just silencing the
> output as we should be able to detect when new config files appear and
> notify users, just to name one example.

Yeh that's a good idea, I'll look into that approach at some point.

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