[csw-maintainers] Checkpgk error when having too long names

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Sun Jul 8 12:03:25 CEST 2012


Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:

> I was building CSWpm-cgi-session-serialize-yaml and got the following:

>
> I then shortened the package and catalog name slightly and the error
> went away. I assume this is because Solaris package tools truncate the
> name or something, or is it in GAR?
>

The limit is 32 bytes, I don't remember whether this includes the null byte.

I am planning to change this for Schillix-ON to 64 or 128 in order to allow 
longer descriptive names such as in IPS.

Jörg

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