Re: pkg/45767

["Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp%spiritual-machines.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45767; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp%spiritual-machines.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/45767
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:26:24 -0500 (EST)

 Right then:
 
 HP inservers a alphabetical characater and a period at the beginning of 
 the POSIX "current release level of the operating system" variable (-r)
 
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 root(pts/1)@ishpsa01[0][535]:/opt/pkgsrc/shells/bash(\.)$ uname -a
 
 HP-UX ishpsa01 B.11.31 U ia64 1694232511 unlimited-user license
 
 root(pts/1)@ishpsa01[0][536]:/opt/pkgsrc/shells/bash(\.)$ uname -r
 B.11.31
 
 root(pts/1)@ishpsa01[0][537]:/opt/pkgsrc/shells/bash(\.)$ uname -v
 U
 
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 aix% uname -a
 AIX SACR2 2 5 00CBEF7D4C00
 
 aix%: uname -r
 2
 
 aix%: uname -v
 5
 
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 freebsd% uname-r
 7.3-STABLE
 
 Likely this will break just about any regex/character matching
 
 
 What's interesting is that the code is storing BI_OS_VERSION properly and 
 retrieving it without the char, so somewhere in pkg_create its doing the 
 right thing(?), or possibly accidentally truncating it.
 
 
                  warnx("%s/%s %s (pkg) vs. %s/%s %s (this host)",
                      pkg->buildinfo[BI_OPSYS],
                      pkg->buildinfo[BI_MACHINE_ARCH],
                      pkg->buildinfo[BI_OS_VERSION],
                      OPSYS_NAME,
                      effective_arch,
                      host_uname.release);