[csw-maintainers] File type of '?' in /var/sadm/install/contents

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

While working on file collision detection in checkpkg, I found the
following line in /var/sadm/install/contents on current9s:

'/opt/csw/gcc3/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.4.6/include ? none
CSWgcc3g77 CSWgcc3core\n'

Looking at the filesystem, it's a directory.  Therefore, the file type
should be 'd'.  But in install/contents, it's '?'.

According to Sun docs[1], the syntax is:

path d class mode owner group package(s)

So, the line in /var/sadm/install/contents does not follow the spec.
I looked at both packages (CSWgcc3g77 and CSWgcc3core), and their
pkgmap looks sane, the corresponding lines are identical in both
packages, and looking sane:

1 d none /opt/csw/gcc3/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.4.6/include 0755 root bin
1 d none /opt/csw/gcc3/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.4.6/include 0755 root bin

Does anyone know how is it possible that /var/sadm/install/contents
contains a line that does not follow the spec?

Maciej

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5174/contents-4?l=en&a=view