freebsd-release-manifests, what is it?

SirDice

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I noticed on a bunch of systems I maintain they have misc/freebsd-release-manifests installed. I'm quite sure I didn't install it so it probably got pulled in as a dependency. Looking through the package contents I see a bunch of files, one for each version and architecture. Each file appears to contain some information from the install media.

I can't find much with regards to its purpose though. Does anybody know?
 
Looking a little further, it appears to have been pulled in by ports-mgmt/poudriere. My guess would be it's used to verify the files that are downloaded when installing/updating a jail.
 
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