Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 04:37:12 -0800
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc: jdp@polstra.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg_{add,create}: Stop me before I kill again!
Message-ID: <13726.827325432@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:28:46 PST." <199603200528.VAA01058@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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I'll look into this folks - can I get this package from John for testing? Please upload to time.cdrom.com and ping me when it's ready. Thanks! Jordan > * Have I run into a bug in pkg_add? I can only think of two things about > * my port that are unusual. First, there are a _lot_ of files in the > * PLIST: > * > * freebie$ wc pkg/PLIST > * 2124 2127 85049 pkg/PLIST > * > * I know that used to cause a problem in pkg_create, but I committed the > * fix for that long ago. (And the package looks OK.) I thought I had > * determined that a large PLIST wouldn't be a problem for pkg_add. Was I > * wrong? > > I had a private conversation with John about it, in indeed looks like > pkg_add's bug, similar to pkg_create's. > > I don't know what we can do now, John is pretty busy with the Elfkit's > stuff, so if someone can take a look, it greatly appreciated. You can > see the latest revision of src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create/perform.c > for an example. > > Satoshi
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