From 5832dafe7f15d52d54235aa96bd7e78c735e2596 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yvo Mulder Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:17:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update list_payload_in_pkg help message regarding Apple's xargs 255 byte limitation (#58202) --- developer/bin/list_payload_in_pkg | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/developer/bin/list_payload_in_pkg b/developer/bin/list_payload_in_pkg index 40230bf305..00d2379d8d 100755 --- a/developer/bin/list_payload_in_pkg +++ b/developer/bin/list_payload_in_pkg @@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ no guarantee that the output is exact. If a given file is already installed, it will be followed by a plus symbol '(+)' in the output. +Note that Apple's xargs utility has a limitation of processing +up to 255 bytes. Therefore long payload paths might be printed +as '{}' instead. To overcome this limitation, please consider +installing the GNU xargs utility instead using: + +brew install findutils + See CONTRIBUTING.md and 'man pkgutil' for more information. "