Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:53:48 -0800 From: "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion Message-ID: <19990401205348.A2406@gramarye.halcyon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990401142054.25276C-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:22:57PM -0500 References: <7322.922949191@zippy.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990401142054.25276C-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think this entire thing is a massive botch and needs to be removed > > as a bad idea ASAP. > > I think that's jumping to conclusions a little too quickly. > > Jordan, we are eliminating a LOT more future PRs and FAQs by using this > method. A few permission and installation oversights (no software can ever > be tested on every possible instance.) should not constitute removal of > the whole idea. At minimum, the implementation is off... What /var/db/pkg/.mkversion is tracking w/ the current implementation it the date of the last _installation_ of the make files... Wouldn't just a "MKPKG_VERSION=xxyyzz" inside of the relevant make file work easier? What's _really_ trying to be accomplished w/ .mkversion? Tracking the version/date of the "make" binary, of the full set of "share/mk" files, of just the ports related makefiles? ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky wrsomsky@halcyon.com Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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