[csw-maintainers] Checkpgk error when having too long names

[Peter Bonivart]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Peter Bonivart's message of Sun Jul 08 01:00:33 -0400 2012:
>
>> I then shortened the package and catalog name slightly and the error
>> went away. I assume this is because Solaris package tools truncate
>> the name or something, or is it in GAR?
>
> The limit was 20 chars and we upped it to 32 a while back.  The
> truncation happens in GAR, iirc.  It matches the capability of the
> underlying package tools though so we can't currently extend it
> further.

That's OK but I would like to get a proper error for it, not that
checkpkg collapses. :) Maybe GAR could tell me if it changes stuff on
the fly or maybe we could put it in mgar.

/peter