[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0004296]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at, line 283

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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4296 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   4296
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   tweak
Priority:                   low
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2010-02-19 02:38 CET
Last Modified:              2010-02-19 10:02 CET
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Summary:                    Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or
string at, line 283
Description: 
I don't know how, but I managed to make pkgutil choke with the following
error message. -U fixed it, but you might want to catch/suppress the
uninitialized warning.

Fetching CSWlibidn-1.16,REV=2010.01.14 (24/141)...
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil line 283.

Fetching of  failed. Try updating your catalog with pkgutil -U.
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 (0007478) bonivart (manager) - 2010-02-19 10:02
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4296#c7478 
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I see that CSWlibidn was just updated to 1.18,REV=2010.02.16. I assume your
catalog contained 1.16,REV=2010.01.14 and when trying to fetch that it
wasn't on the mirror. That's why updating the catalog helped.

So the hint was helpful but the problem wasn't handled gracefully. I'll
add that to my todo-list.