Subject: Spurious space in PKGPATH variable?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/17/2007 00:04:09
Hi,

I tried out pkg_rolling-replace(1), and it failed because some packages had
a spurious space in the path. Looking closer, I found

[hauke@pizza] /<1>db/pkg > fgrep 'PKGPATH= ' */*
analog-5.24/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= www/analog
bison-1.875nb1/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= devel/bison
bonnie-2.06/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= benchmarks/bonnie
ce-4.4/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= editors/ce
cpuflags-0.22/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= devel/cpuflags
dialog-0.6z/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= misc/dialog
freetype-lib-1.3.1/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= graphics/freetype-lib
ghostscript-fonts-6.0/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= fonts/ghostscript-fonts
gindent-2.2.6/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= devel/gindent
gmake-3.79.1/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= devel/gmake
gnuplot-3.7.1/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= graphics/gnuplot
gtar-1.12/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= archivers/gtar
gtar-info-1.12/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= archivers/gtar-info
ja-vflib-lib-2.24.2/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= japanese/vflib-lib
m4-1.4/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= devel/m4
mawk-1.3.3/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= lang/mawk
mpage-2.5/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= print/mpage
papersize-1.0.2/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= print/papersize
pforth-21/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= lang/pforth
recode-3.6/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= converters/recode
rx-1.5/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= devel/rx
t1lib-1.3.1/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= fonts/t1lib
teTeX2-bin-2.0.2/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= print/teTeX2-bin
teTeX2-share-2.0.2/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= print/teTeX2-share
teTeX2-sharesrc-2.0.2/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= print/teTeX2-sharesrc
team-3.1/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= misc/team
watanabe-vfont-19930318/+BUILD_INFO:PKGPATH= fonts/watanabe_vfont
[hauke@pizza] /<1>db/pkg >

Now, I can reach in and remove those, but would anyone know what inserted
that space?

	hauke

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