Subject: pkg/31909: pkg_chk & fmt on solaris 9
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 10/24/2005 23:33:00
>Number: 31909
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: pkg_chk & fmt on solaris 9
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 24 23:33:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: john heasley
>Release: Solaris 9
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: SunOS yew 5.9 Generic_118558-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
Architecture: sparc64
Machine: sparc64
>Description:
pkg_chk's use of fmt on solaris 9 results in random truncation of
pkgchk.conf. It seems that fmt on solaris has an input buffer
limitation, of what size I am not exactly sure.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
replacement of 'fmt -1' with "tr ' ' '\n'" fixes it (maybe tr -s?), which
ought to work more universally.
>Unformatted: