[csw-maintainers] package naming conventions for addons to other packages

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Oct 29 19:02:29 CEST 2010


On 10/29/10, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Fri Oct 29 05:56:43 -0400 2010:
>
>> Do you, as an active foundation maintainer, agree to relive the
>> current limit of packages name from the current 20 characters to the
>> 256 characters defined by the current packaging system?
>
> I agree that the limit should be raised to be 256 as per the
> underlying system limits.
>

has anyone verified whether the limit is 256 chars under solaris 9?
I think it was only checked under sol10


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