From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 31 5: 5:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.nwnexus.com (smtp10.nwnexus.com [206.63.63.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF2515C64; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky@halcyon.com) Received: from gramarye (evt-lx100-ip24.nwnexus.net [204.57.235.24]) by smtp10.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29828; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wrsomsky@localhost) by gramarye (8.9.2/8.8.8) id FAA72625; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:01:14 -0800 From: "William R. Somsky" To: Dom Mitchell Cc: Satoshi Asami , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion Message-ID: <19990331050114.B72493@gramarye.halcyon.com> References: <199903310247.SAA46577@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dom Mitchell on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 09:56:07AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 09:56:07AM +0100, Dom Mitchell wrote: > On 30 March 1999, Satoshi Asami proclaimed: > > Just a side note; this new file breaks pkg_info. I've appended a simple > patch below; somebody ought to do something better for the version in > the src tree. > Yep, this definitely suggests that /var/db/pkg isn't the appropriate place for the "make version" file. I think /usr/share/mk would be better. After all, that's where the make files that it's saying what the date of are anyway. And potentially, things other than ports might want to refer to it as well. -- ________________________________________________________________________ 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