* Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-30 20:05]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: >> 1. The Windows path and filename lengths are not allowed to impact >> the length of package FMRIs. That means that this fix might need >> to be replaced in the future by the equivalent of a private >> symlink implementation (hash of the FMRI, dictionary of FMRIs and >> hashes). > > As it stands now, the pathname in the state/installed directory is 2 > characters longer than the installed file in the pkg area (because "state" > is two characters longer than "pkg"). And if license files are there, > those pathnames are almost certainly longer than the installed file > pathnames.
Good point. > In order to allow arbitrary length FMRIs, a reimplementation of the > structure under the pkg area would be needed too. Yep. Thanks Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
