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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:17:31 -0700
From:      "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" <ardent@nebcorp.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange formatting error with pkg_info after using portupgrade
Message-ID:  <20030621181731.GB5086@nebcorp.com>
In-Reply-To: <3EF48DAD.1040702@geminix.org>
References:  <20030620022316.GA52638@nebcorp.com> <3EF48DAD.1040702@geminix.org>

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On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:54:05PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote:
> 
> Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote:
> >
> >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'.
> 
	That did the trick; thanks!

	Still, why does portupgrade get rid of the newlines in the 
COMMENT?  Has anyone else seen this behavior?


-Joe



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