ports need a uniq identifier, do you have any suggestion?

[Eitan Adler]

On 10 June 2012 21:30, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the ports tree we lack a unique identifier, while we could live without it
> until now, it is more than needed for 2 upcoming features: pkgng and stage
> directory support.
>
> unique means something that will always be the same what ever the options are
> and what ever the runtime they use are. But also means unique in term of in the
> whole ports no other package will share its identifier.
>
> currently the only equivalent of this in the ports tree is the origin of a
> package, which will no more be unique with the upcoming sub package support
> (coming along with stage directory) aka 1 origin to produce n package.

Perhaps we could introduce UNIQUE_ORIGIN which is
${ORIGIN}_${SUBPACKAGE} or something of the sort?

-- 
Eitan Adler