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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:33:06 -0600
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        vd@datamax.bg
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Add distinfo in +CONTENTS?
Message-ID:  <op.s3k4dgq69aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060118095742.GA1854@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
References:  <op.s3j04luy9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20060118095742.GA1854@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>

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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:57:42 -0600, Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:25:23PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> What do anyone think of add distinfo (filename, md5, sha256 and size) in
>> the +CONTENTS?
>
> As I see the idea of the +CONTENTS file is to store what the port has
> installed, but the original archive has nothing to do with that. So I
> guess +CONTENTS is not the appropriate place for this.

Good point, go with +DISTINFO.

Cheers,
Mezz

>> I think it will gaining more features for our third party apps to use it
>> such as portupgrade, portmaster, and etc can clean the old or un-use
>> tarballs in the distfiles more correct. Also, maybe add a new flag in
>> pkg_add that can display the full info that look like distinfo, so if
>> author, developer or whatever want to know what kind of tarball you have
>> used in case if they re-rolled tarball w/out have your or maintainer
>> knowledge.
>
> It seems a good idea to have the distinfo stored somewhere in
> /var/db/pkg/appname/


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