On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think this entire thing is a massive botch and needs to be removed > > as a bad idea ASAP. > > I think that's jumping to conclusions a little too quickly. > > Jordan, we are eliminating a LOT more future PRs and FAQs by using this > method. A few permission and installation oversights (no software can ever > be tested on every possible instance.) should not constitute removal of > the whole idea.
At minimum, the implementation is off... What /var/db/pkg/.mkversion is tracking w/ the current implementation it the date of the last _installation_ of the make files... Wouldn't just a "MKPKG_VERSION=xxyyzz" inside of the relevant make file work easier? What's _really_ trying to be accomplished w/ .mkversion? Tracking the version/date of the "make" binary, of the full set of "share/mk" files, of just the ports related makefiles? ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky wrsom...@halcyon.com Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
