[kde-solaris] [kde-discuss] Packages for x86 Nevada i386 available

[Shawn Walker]

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