Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Hi Brett, > > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:53:16 Albertson, Brett wrote: >> Same issue with xine-lib (it makes KDEbase-runtime impossible to pkgadd). >> I shortened its description in KDEbase-runtime/install/depend and updated >> the chksum. > > Wow, that's pretty fundamental (and broken in pkgadd). Do you have an idea > what the maximum length is so that we can check for it in future? I'll > shorten > the descriptions of xine-lib and gnupth to avoid this for now. > > New packages will be built, but it will probably be for KDE 4.2.0.
The documentation on docs.sun.com notes the many limitations of the SVR4 package format. However, summarized they are: * 32 characters for package "names" (PKG in a prototype file); the first character cannot be numeric. * 256 characters for package "summary" (NAME in a prototype file) * 256 characters for package "version" (VERSION in a prototype file) * 256 characters for package "description" (DESC in a prototype file) * 16 characters for package "category" (CATEGORY in a prototype file) * 256 characters for package "vendor" (VENDOR in a prototype file) * 256 characters for package "email" (EMAIL in a prototype file) Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
