I just wanted to add about 1000's of lines of text flying by when you do a package addition. Yes that can be a problem.
I know a couple of ways to deal with that if you think of it in time. First is to pipe the output of the command through
tee(1). E.g.,
# pkg_add -v ... | tee mylogfile
Then you have a copy of standard output from the command in the log file (although standard error won't be there without further redirection). You can peruse this file at leisure for any install-time messages, etc.
The second way is to use the
script(1) command. It basically starts a new shell and records everything you do in that shell to a file. When you're done exit the shell. By default the file that's recorded is called
typescript. It will have some annoying characters in it like ^M that you may want to remove with an editor.
Of course, it's too late for those now since you already installed the packages, but all is not lost! pkg_add records what you installed under
/var/db/pkg. Under there is a directory for each package you installed. In those sub-directories are various files, in particular there will be one called
+DISPLAY if the package presented any message during install time. You can just read that file with the message in it.
$ find /var/db/pkg -name +DISPLAY
will show you what files may be there to look at.