Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:01:13 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: Hang problem with spamass-milter... Message-ID: <20020709120115274.AAA980@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20020709044936.GI13884@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020708232414153.AAA969@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On 8 Jul 2002, at 23:49, Dan Nelson boldly uttered: > In the last episode (Jul 08), Philip J. Koenig said: > > 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. Hm, very interesting.. thanks for the info. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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