From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 22:58:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346101065670 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:58:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BF38FC18 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24446 invoked by uid 399); 3 Oct 2010 22:58:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 3 Oct 2010 22:58:01 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CA90A78.5010806@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 15:58:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Hein References: <19625.2146.758021.796409@gossamer.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <19625.2146.758021.796409@gossamer.timing.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2a1pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: ident strings in pkg-plist X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:58:03 -0000 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 -- Breadth of IT experience, and | Nothin' ever doesn't change, depth of knowledge in the DNS. | but nothin' changes much. Yours for the right price. :) | -- OK Go http://SupersetSolutions.com/