Dan Price wrote:
I don't think you really answered either of my questions.
I just spoke with Danek on this. What's there (code in
solaris.py) at the moment isn't correct. It should be the
following (Danek please correct me if I get this wrong):
* If an IPS package definition file has a
summary "this is a package summary"
line, it should add the following two lines to the IPS package manifest:
set name=description value="this is a package summary"
set name=pkg.summary value="this is a package summary"
If there is no "summary" line, then it'll look for a NAME field
in the SVR4 package manifest, and set those two lines based
on its value.
* If an IPS package definition file has a
description "this is a much longer line ... giving a detailed package
description"
line, it should add the following line to the IPS package manifest:
set name=pkg.description value="this is a much longer line ... giving
a detailed package description"
If there is no "description" line, then it'll look for a DESC field
in the SVR4 package manifest, and set that line based
on its value.
I've opened bug #9473 on this, and will generate a fix ASAP.
1) What metadata should be in entire?
Just description?
OR Both description and pkg.summary?
OR Just pkg.summary?
Assuming the fix for bug #9473 has been integrated, then if you
just want a short summary for entire, then you should have a
summary line. If you want both a short summary and a long description,
then your IPS package definition file should have both a summary line
and a description line. And so on...
2) We're saying that 'pkg list -s' uses description and not
pkg.summary? Why shouldn't we do the same algorithm in list -s
as you do in the API? Or was this an oversight, and needs fixing?
With the proposed changes for bug #9473, then "pkg -s" will
print out the pkg.summary (aka the "description"). Currently
there isn't a pkg list option to print out the pkg.description.
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