#16619: certain characters in long description cause corrupt receipt to be installed -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: darren.weber.lists@gmail.com | Owner: macports-tickets@lists.macosforge.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: MacPorts base bugs Component: base | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: | Keywords: receipt port syntax Port: | -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment(by darren.weber.lists@gmail.com): I've tested the {} solution for long_description; it seems to fail. Here's the example test for libpqxx below. Portfile contains: {{{ long_description { libpqxx is the official C++ client API for PostgreSQL, the enterprise- strength open-source database software. There are many similar libraries for PostgreSQL and for other databases, some of them database independent. Most of these, however, are fairly C like in their programming style, and fail to take advantage of the full power of the C++ language as it has matured since the acceptance of the Standard in 1996. What libpqxx brings you is effective use of templates to reduce the inconvenience of dealing with type conversions, standard C++ strings to keep you from having to worry about buffer allocation and overflow attacks, exceptions to take the tedious and error prone plumbing around error handling out of your hands, constructors and destructors to bring resource management under control, and even basic object orientation to give you some extra reliability features that would be hard to get with most other database interfaces.} }}} port install process: {{{ [ dweber@elegans ~ ]$ sudo port install libpqxx ---> Fetching libpqxx ---> Verifying checksum(s) for libpqxx ---> Extracting libpqxx ---> Configuring libpqxx ---> Building libpqxx with target all ---> Staging libpqxx into destroot ---> Installing libpqxx 2.6.9_0 ---> Activating libpqxx 2.6.9_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: libpqxx @2.6.9_0 not installed as an image. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. }}} Resulting receipt file contains: {{{ [ dweber@elegans ~ ]$ cat /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/libpqxx/2.6.9_0/receipt.bz2 | bunzip2 | more # Version: 1.0 variants {} imagedir /opt/local/var/macports/software/libpqxx/2.6.9_0 description {Official C++ client API for PostgreSQL} active 0 homepage http://pqxx .org/development/libpqxx/ epoch 0 compact 0 depends_lib {port:pkgconfig port:postgresql83} name libpqxx installtype image receipt_f receipt_flat maintai ners gmail.com:darren.weber.lists long_description {{ libpqxx is the official C++ client API for PostgreSQL, the enterprise- strength open-source database software. There are many similar libraries for PostgreSQL and for other databases, some of them database independent. Most of these, however, are fairly C like in their programming style, and fail to take advantage of the full power of the C++ language as it has matured since the acceptance of the Standard in 1996. What libpqxx brings you is effective use of templates to reduce the inconvenience of dealing with type conversions, standard C++ strings to keep you from having to worry about buffer allocation and overflow attacks, exceptions to take the tedious and error prone plumbing around error handling out of your hands, constructors and destructors to bring resource management under control, and even basic object orientation to give you some extra reliability features that would be hard to get with most other database interfaces.}} contents {{/opt/local/var/macports/software/libpqxx/2.6.9_0/opt/local/bin/pqxx- config 0 80 33261 1259 {MD5 (/opt/local/var/macpor ts/software/libpqxx/2.6.9_0/opt/local/bin/pqxx-config) = a65c02cde9c3e0efb766c85f4b1652e6}} . . .<snip> }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16619#comment:6> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS