Date: 24 Aug 1999 15:42:37 -0700 From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arb patch to tell who installed port and when Message-ID: <vqclnb0ztpe.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Neil Blakey-Milner's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:30:17 %2B0200" References: <19990824144734.A73970@rucus.ru.ac.za> <XFMail.990824121955.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> <19990824213017.A99983@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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* From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
* Well, the theory being that ifpeople think it's a good idea, I'd then
* propose adding an option to pkg*, which isn't too important. For the
* moment, it's reasonably arbitrary to write a script to work this out, and
* even manual is useful.
I think it is useful, but let's design the whole thing first. Here
are the comments/questions that popped up to my head:
@ Do something sensible if ${USER} is not defined. (Maybe use
`whoami` in that case)
@ What will pkg_info show? Make sure it doesn't coredump if the
files are not there. :)
@ I'm assuming pkg_add will create a new "user" file with the
appropriate information (same criteria: $USER if defined, `whoami`
if not), and a new "when" file at the installation date.
@ No change to pkg_create?
@ Anything that pkg_delete has to do? Maybe warn if the user is
different from the one that added it? (Just throwing out all
possibilities -- I don't think that's very useful. :)
-PW
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