[csw-maintainers] [csw-devel] SF.net SVN: gar:[8215] csw/mgar/gar/v2

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Roger Håkansson <hson at opencsw.org> wrote:
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> First, ${NAME_MAX_LENGTH} should probably be in the output as well...
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> When I noticed this I started wondering about the length of the package
> name.
> pkginfo(4) on Solaris 8 states that the maxlength is 9 chars and on Solaris
> 9 it is 32.
> Since we have packages with longer names than 9 chars and they install just
> fine on Solaris 8 I suspect that Sun raised the limit in some patch but
> never fixed the man page.
> But the question is have they raised it to 32 or something else. Does anyone
> know?
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It's something like 32, yah. However, that being said, having
super-long package names looks very ugly in system level outputs (eg:
pkginfo), so we discourage it :) the "software name" is supposed to be
the informative one anyway.