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

[Roger Håkansson]

On 2010-01-29 17:29, Philip Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Roger Håkansson<hson at opencsw.org>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> First, ${NAME_MAX_LENGTH} should probably be in the output as well...
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> 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.

(Follow-up on a old topic due to the fact that I ran into problem today 
relating to it)
Given that, is there any reason why "software name" also is restricted 
to 20 chars?