Strange formatting error with pkg_info after using portupgrade

[Uwe Doering]

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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