From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 5: 1:19 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 D6BF637B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F021243E4A for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:01:15 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:01:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Hang problem with spamass-milter... Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Dan Nelson In-reply-to: <20020709044936.GI13884@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020708232414153.AAA969@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020709120115274.AAA980@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> 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 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