On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun 13 Apr 2008 at 08:46AM, Mike Gerdts wrote:
>  > As I was looking into why "pkg contents" did not work as non-root[1],
>  > I noticed that /var/pkg/pkg/*/installed files do not end with a
>  > newline character.  While the code that is supposed to read and modify
>  > these files handles it just fine, I suspect that it will become
>  > problematic in the real world because:
>
>  Mike, I think it's just an oversight; I filed bug 1164 on your behalf.

That's good news.  Thanks!

>  I think our hope is that pkg(5) can be largely self-repairing.  I
>  cringe to think of an admin manually tweaking this stuff, but I
>  know it will happen.

I think that Murphy says that this will definitely happen.

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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