James C. McPherson wrote: > Shawn M Emery wrote: >> In the near future it would be nice to have some form of keyword >> expansion whether in one form or another. If everyone is in agreement >> then we may want to consider the keyword extension for mercurial which >> allows fairly easy interface to expand and contract keywords: > > One of the benefits of moving to Mercurial is that we can > remove (or at least, massively decrease) our reliance on > SCCS keywords that very, very frequently have absolutely > no relationship to reality.
> I think you'll find that the people on this mailing list > are not in favour of what you suggest. I am very much in agreement with James. The issue has been brought up and discussed in great detail - including a lot of internal to Sun discussion with the services organisation. There are much better and more reliable tools for determining which revision of a particular binary you have than source keywords. They include (either on their own or in combination) but are not limited to: pkgchk, pkg(5) [IPS], digest, md5sum, bart, showrev, elfsign, the online fingerprint database. -- Darren J Moffat
