Re: An odd vital FreeBSD-set-* result?

Mark Millard wrote in <D00275AE-2E13-45AC-AAF4-D5410E07553E@yahoo.com>:
> But the following indicates that the cached *.pkg files themselves
> agree with the just-4-vitals status:

do you build your packages with "make update-packages"?  if so, can you
try deleting your ${REPODIR} and rebuilding, so all packages are
recreated?

i'm wondering if adding the vital flag (but not changing anything else)
doesn't cause update-packages to actually update the package.

> Also of note is the lack of a new-line between the prior } and the
> name: for most of the above. An example of a surrounding context is:
> 
> categories: [
>     "base"
> ]
> annotations: {
>     FreeBSD_version: "1600000"
> }name: "FreeBSD-set-base-dbg"
> origin: "base"

it looks the UCL output from 'pkg info' doesn't have a trailing newline.
i think this is a pkg(8) bug, but it shouldn't have anything to do with
this issue.

to confirm, this is the full output i get for the set-src package, using
'echo' to force a trailing newline:

# pkg info -R -F /build/packages/base/FreeBSD:16:amd64/latest/FreeBSD-set-src-16.snap20250919160159.pkg; echo
name: "FreeBSD-set-src"
origin: "base"
version: "16.snap20250919160159"
comment: "System source code"
maintainer: "re@FreeBSD.org"
www: "https://www.FreeBSD.org"
abi: "FreeBSD:16:amd64"
arch: "freebsd:16:x86:64"
prefix: "/"
flatsize: 0
licenselogic: "single"
licenses: [
    "BSD2CLAUSE"
]
vital: true
desc: "This metapackage installs source code for the base system and kernel."
deps: {
    FreeBSD-src: {
        origin: "base",
        version: "16.snap20250919160159"
    },
    FreeBSD-src-sys: {
        origin: "base",
        version: "16.snap20250919160159"
    }
}
categories: [
    "base"
]
annotations: {
    FreeBSD_version: "1600000"
}
#

other than the vital flag, does this match what you have?