[csw-devel] [PATCH] Fix SPKG_DESC duplicate checking

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej Bliziński's message of Wed Aug 03 04:36:31 -0400 2011:

> I like the early detection of the issue.  You could consider it a
> build recipe check, as opposed to a binary package check.

Fail fast is good, but doing the check in GAR removes the opportunity
to intentionally have two the same.  This isn't a likely scenario
though.

> Nevertheless, checking the resulting binary package set could be a
> good idea.  Something like "no two packages from the set under test
> should have the same description field". As an extended check,
> descriptions could be matched against all descriptions in the
> catalog, but the database doesn't have the metadata yet.

I would only look at the current set for a check like this.

Thanks
-Ben
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