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diff --git a/drush_make.project.inc b/drush_make.project.inc
index 76b71b2..3eae893 100644
--- a/drush_make.project.inc
+++ b/drush_make.project.inc
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ class DrushMakeProject {
     if (drush_make_download_factory($this->name, $this->download, $download_location) === FALSE) {
       return FALSE;
     }
+    if ($this->drush_make_inject_info($this->name, $this->download, $this->project_directory) === FALSE) {
+      return FALSE;
+    }
     if (!$this->addLockfile($download_location)) {
       return FALSE;
     }
@@ -74,6 +77,60 @@ class DrushMakeProject {
     return TRUE;
   }
 
+  function drush_make_inject_info($name, $download, $download_location) {
+    if (in_array(strtolower($download['type']), array("git", "svn", "bzr", "cvs")) && $this->version != "best") {
+      // Inspired by: http://drupalcode.org/project/project.git/blob/7beb24ff6f46bdfb0e428684172a7811ef809b4e:/release/package-release-nodes.php#l835
+      // Array to hold info files
+      $info_files = array();
+      // Handler for the directory and open directory and walk through the filenames
+      $handler = opendir($this->download_location);
+      while ($file = readdir($handler)) {
+        // if file is an info file
+        if (preg_match('/^.+\.info$/', $file)) {
+          $info_files[] = "$dir/$file";
+        }
+      }
+      closedir($handler);
+
+      $return = TRUE;
+      // Consider that the d.o. package manager is aware of submodules in parent modules
+      foreach($info_files as $info_file) {
+        $return = $return && $this->fix_info_file_version($this->download_location . $info_file, $this->name, $this->version);
+      }
+    }
+    return $return;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Fix the given .info file with the specified version string
+   * Taken straight from: http://drupalcode.org/project/project.git/blob/7beb24ff6f46bdfb0e428684172a7811ef809b4e:/release/package-release-nodes.php#l767
+   */
+  private function fix_info_file_version($file, $project, $version) {
+    $info = "\n\n; Information added by drush_make (data from makefile) automatically on " . date('Y-m-d') . "\n";
+    $info .= "version = \"$version\"\n";
+    // .info files started with 5.x, so we don't have to worry about version
+    // strings like "4.7.x-1.0" in this regular expression. If we can't parse
+    // the version (also from an old "HEAD" release), or the version isn't at
+    // least 6.x, don't add any "core" attribute at all.
+    $matches = array();
+    if (preg_match('/^((\d+)\.x)-.*/', $version, $matches) && $matches[2] >= 6) {
+      $info .= "core = \"$matches[1]\"\n";
+    }
+    $info .= "project = \"$project\"\n";
+    $info .= 'datestamp = "'. time() ."\"\n";
+    $info .= "\n";
+
+    if (!$info_fd = fopen($file, 'a+')) {
+      drush_set_error(dt("ERROR: fopen(@file, 'ab') failed", array('@file' => $file)));
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (!fwrite($info_fd, $info)) {
+      drush_set_error(dt("ERROR: fwrite(@file) failed", array('@file' => $file)) . '<pre>' . $info);
+      return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
   function findDownloadLocation() {
     $this->path = $this->generatePath();
     $this->project_directory = !empty($this->directory_name) ? $this->directory_name : $this->name;

http://drupal.org/node/1302820

Did some testing with drush tonight and have some tips:

http://drupal.org/project/drush project has nice pear install info:
(note: may need to sudo)

pear channel-discover pear.drush.org
pear install drush/drush-5.0.0 # note: there may be some instability, but seems ok
(note: drush-5.0.0 has the --gitinfofile which injects version into .info)

Drush bash completion is probably a handy tool for sbox CLI: http://drupalcode.org/project/drush.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/drush.complete.sh
namely: sourcing the bash completion script e.g.: . /usr/share/php/drush/drush.complete.sh
(this provides tab completion for drush commands)

Drush5 provides an injection to the .info file; an example use of this would be:
drush dl --package-handler=git_drupalorg --gitinfofile uuid
(note: the --gitinfofile parameter)

(running .info inject by default)
Using the drushrc.php (a file to specify specific specific drush options in a config file...)
we can ensure that gitinfofile is enabled by default:
$command_specific['pm-download'] = array('gitinfofile' => TRUE);
(note: unfortunately drush_make doesn't respect the drush dl paradigm ... drush 5 this will be the preferred method)
(note: to get drush to continue reading my rc file I had to do: drush -c ~/.drush/drushrc.php make example.make www)
(tip: to see what is happening with the actual drush commands use debug/verbose: drush --debug --verbose -c ~/.drush/drushrc.php make example.make www)

We can also have specific drushrc.php settings per repo to be fancy: http://drupalcode.org/project/drush.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/examples/example.drushrc.php#l8
and/or
http://drupalcode.org/project/drush.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/examples/example.drushrc.php#l332
(note: I believe this to be a nice way - and the drush recommended way - to organize our alias' and other drush specific settings.)
(note: to accomplish this I believe minimal setup through Puppet could get things in place - this would be for deployed env. - everything else would have a Readme)

<(soon) deprecated>
For drush_make .info inject... (or running drush 4.5)

cd ~/.drush/drush_make/
# http://drupal.org/node/1302820
wget http://drupal.org/files/drush_make_inject_info.patch
patch -p1 < drush_make_inject_info.patch

(note: the necessity to include 'version' in the makefile)

Injecting the .info file will allow you to use Drupal's default update manager screen: