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Date:      Sun, 03 Oct 2010 15:58:00 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Hein <jhein@symmetricom.com>
Cc:        "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ident strings in pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <4CA90A78.5010806@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <19625.2146.758021.796409@gossamer.timing.com>
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Changing the list to have a real discussion about this.

On 10/3/2010 3:49 PM, John Hein wrote:
> I'll mention that
> it has come in handy for me in the past.  I put it into the category
> of ident strings in binaries.  It has a similar utility.
>
> Because I find it useful in maintaining and using a port/package,
> I've been one that has added it to pkg-plist in the past.

I'm curious about what your use case for the information is. You can 
always know if you have the latest version of the plist via cvs, 
c[v]sup, portsnap, etc. Other than knowing that you have the latest 
version, what utility does the $Id string in the file itself have?


Doug

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