[csw-maintainers] pkgname limit 20 chars?

[Darin Perusich]

Peter FELECAN wrote:
> Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:
> 
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:43:10PM +0200, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
>>> Are we restricted by external limitations here?
>> have to draw the line somewhere. we've drawn the line at 20 chars for
>> [mumble] years. it's a reasonable place to draw it, and it doesnt matter
>> much what the CSWxxxx package name is to users, so not having it exactly
>> match the software name, really isnt important.
> 
> Sure but it's a PITA for people using "automatic" tools which derive the
> package name from the software name. BTW, the only restriction is in Sys
> V pkg where is defined as 256 ASCII characters (long and possibly ugly
> but aesthetics are subjective by nature). I'm voting for longer than 20
> characters (which is of the kind of the 64Kb of the first PC, i.e. "big
> enough"... and blue)

If the defined limit 256 characters that should be "our" self-defined
limit. Additional this should apply for ALL the pkginfo fields which
have limits, which I've detailed below from the man page.

ARCH = 16 chars
CATEGORY = 16 chars
NAME = 256 chars
PKG = 32 chars
VERSION = 256 chars
DESC = 256 chars
EMAIL = 256 chars
HOTLINE = 256 chars


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Darin Perusich
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