Peter FELECAN wrote: > Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:43:10PM +0200, Sebastian Kayser wrote: >>> Are we restricted by external limitations here? >> have to draw the line somewhere. we've drawn the line at 20 chars for >> [mumble] years. it's a reasonable place to draw it, and it doesnt matter >> much what the CSWxxxx package name is to users, so not having it exactly >> match the software name, really isnt important. > > Sure but it's a PITA for people using "automatic" tools which derive the > package name from the software name. BTW, the only restriction is in Sys > V pkg where is defined as 256 ASCII characters (long and possibly ugly > but aesthetics are subjective by nature). I'm voting for longer than 20 > characters (which is of the kind of the 64Kb of the first PC, i.e. "big > enough"... and blue)
If the defined limit 256 characters that should be "our" self-defined limit. Additional this should apply for ALL the pkginfo fields which have limits, which I've detailed below from the man page. ARCH = 16 chars CATEGORY = 16 chars NAME = 256 chars PKG = 32 chars VERSION = 256 chars DESC = 256 chars EMAIL = 256 chars HOTLINE = 256 chars -- Darin Perusich Unix Systems Administrator Cognigen Corporation 395 Youngs Rd. Williamsville, NY 14221 Phone: 716-633-3463 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
