Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:54:05 +0200 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" <ardent@nebcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange formatting error with pkg_info after using portupgrade Message-ID: <3EF48DAD.1040702@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <20030620022316.GA52638@nebcorp.com> References: <20030620022316.GA52638@nebcorp.com>
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Hi,
Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote:
> Hello, everyone, I have a fairly strange error, that has popped
> up on both machines where I have used portupgrade (both 4.8-RELEASE
> boxes). Here is an example output:
>
> please:~> pkg_info |head
> BitTorrent-3.2.1b "Peer to Peer file sharing/mirroring."Mesa-3.4.2_2
> A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL
> ORBit-0.5.17 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language
> XFree86-4.3.0,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/meta-po
>
> Note how Mesa's entry begins immediately after the last
> character of BitTorrent's.
> [...]
While I actually don't know why the terminating newline is missing in
some cases I noticed that there was an MFC to RELENG_4 a couple of days
ago that makes 'pkg_info' add a newline if the comment line doesn't have
one. You may want to take a look at FreeBSD's CVS repository
(src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/show.c) in order to build and install a
fixed 'pkg_info'.
Or if it doesn't happen often you could just as well edit the respective
'+COMMENT' file in the '/var/db/pkg' hierarchy. The pragmatic approach. ;-)
Uwe
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