Nominate myself for the useful-use-of-cat award.

pkg detects if its stdout is a terminal and prints many 'done%' lines,
which are useful for interactive use on modern terminals, but not so
useful on a serial console; piping through cat silences these.

sysutils/firstboot-pkgs/Makefile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	firstboot-pkgs
-PORTVERSION=	1.3
+PORTVERSION=	1.4
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils
 MASTER_SITES=	# none
 DISTFILES=	# none

sysutils/firstboot-pkgs/files/firstboot_pkgs.in

@@ -32,12 +32,14 @@ firstboot_pkgs_run()
 
 	# Bootstrap if necessary
 	if ! pkg -N 2>/dev/null; then
-		env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg bootstrap
+		env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg bootstrap |
+		    cat
 	fi
 
 	# Install requested packages, if any
 	if ! [ -z "$firstboot_pkgs_list" ]; then
-		env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg install $firstboot_pkgs_list </dev/null
+		env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg install $firstboot_pkgs_list </dev/null |
+		    cat
 	fi
 
 	# Count rc.d scripts again