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

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Sun Jul 8 16:26:13 CEST 2012


Excerpts from Peter Bonivart's message of Sun Jul 08 01:00:33 -0400 2012:

> 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 was 20 chars and we upped it to 32 a while back.  The
truncation happens in GAR, iirc.  It matches the capability of the
underlying package tools though so we can't currently extend it
further.

Thanks
-Ben
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