From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 21:49:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E735B37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657C143E31 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g694naG5052551; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:49:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:49:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Philip J. Koenig" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hang problem with spamass-milter... Message-ID: <20020709044936.GI13884@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020708225856.GC13884@dan.emsphone.com> <20020708232414153.AAA969@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020708232414153.AAA969@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 08), Philip J. Koenig said: > On 8 Jul 2002, at 17:58, Dan Nelson boldly uttered: > > In the last episode (Jul 08), Philip J. Koenig said: > > > (Speaking of ports - is it really true that the spamass-milter > > > port has been around since April, judging by the date I see > > > listed in the Makefile? I had a long discussion with Dan Nelson > > > only 3 weeks ago > > > > That's just the date the author put in the Makefile, and does not > > reflect reality. > > OK, thanks for the info. > > So then, what is the purpose of the date in the Makefile then if it's > just arbitrary? Clearly the CVS version date is interesting, since > it has to be in order for ports to work right, but what is the actual > purpose of the "Date Created" string in the Makefile? If "Date > Created" is just fantasy, why put anything there at all? No idea :) The porter's handbook includes it in its sample Makefiles but never actually explains it. I usally put the date I first started work on a port, which usually ends up being a lot earlier than when it gets committetd. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message