Suggestion to add build/revision number to "pkg stats"

[Simon Wright]

On 16/09/2015 22:58, mfv wrote:

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> The build number is only available when the build begins, but the
> package upgrade is not possible until the build process ends many
> hours later.  Moreover, it is also possible to update the port tree to

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> A simple solution would be to have the build number available as part
> of a port upgrade and made available in "pkg stats".  Its output
> could look like this:
>
> Local package database:

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> Even better would be an argument to "pkg stats" that would only output
> the revision number, say "pkg stats -n"
>
> After running "pkg upgrade", it would then be an easy to extract the
> build number of that particular upgrade and then sync the ports tree to
> that number using subversion or, my favourite, svnup.

+1, this information would be very useful for me. It might be 
necessary to be able to specify a specific repository as well as the 
local/remote switch; I have two remotes configured, my one built by 
poudriere and also the "latest" freebsd.org repo.

Simon.