Bug 266581 - ports-mgmt/pkg: pkg(8) should mention --debug verbosity increases with -dd, -ddd and -dddd
Summary: ports-mgmt/pkg: pkg(8) should mention --debug verbosity increases with -dd, -...
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: freebsd-pkg (Nobody)
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...
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Reported: 2022-09-24 12:46 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2023-10-06 01:59 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-09-24 12:46:12 UTC 
From the current edition of the manual page for pkg(8): 

>     -d, --debug
>             Show debug information.

<https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2012#issuecomment-1093374877>: 

> Through experimentation (not from the manual page) I discovered that 
> -d can be specified more than once. 
> 
> …

Compare outputs from this pair of commands: 

   pkg -d update --force
  pkg -dd update --force

– then this trio of commands: 

  pkg -dd check -d
 pkg -ddd check -d
pkg -dddd check -d