Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc

[Steven Drake <sbd%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

:On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:58:25AM +0000, Steven Drake wrote:
> > Module Name:        pkgsrc
> > Committed By:       sbd
> > Date:               Thu Apr  5 02:58:25 UTC 2012
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-faroese: Makefile
> >     pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-norwegian: Makefile
> >     pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-portuguese: Makefile
> >     pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-romanian: Makefile
> >     pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-spanish: Makefile
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Mark packages as BROKEN if using "pkg" package format on Linux.
> 
> Why?

8 bit characters in file/link names. 

As briefly as possible: libarchive can't translate the names to utf8 
because msbtowcs on linux wont work unless LC_CTYPE is set appropriately.

-- 
Steven