From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 1 20:57:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.nwnexus.com (smtp04.nwnexus.com [206.63.63.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8584C14DAA; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:57:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky@halcyon.com) Received: from gramarye (evt-lx100-ip34.nwnexus.net [204.57.235.34]) by smtp04.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13236; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:56:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wrsomsky@localhost) by gramarye (8.9.2/8.8.8) id UAA02429; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:53:48 -0800 From: "William R. Somsky" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , John Hay , Satoshi Asami , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion Message-ID: <19990401205348.A2406@gramarye.halcyon.com> References: <7322.922949191@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:22:57PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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