Hi,
[Looks like this has been discussed previously, though perhaps not here. Sorry if it's annoying to have it brought up again.]
I'd like to make "yum install" case-insensitive (for occasions where there is only one useful interpretation of case), so that I can do e.g. "yum install wxgtk" without first doing "yum search wxgtk" and finding that the required case is "yum install wxGTK".
In the unlikely event of repositories containing two packages with the same case-insensitive interpretation (would this meet packaging rules, and is it used by anyone?) we can refuse to operate on anything but the correct case. There is no potential for damage here -- we don't proceed if you might have meant something else.
What do people here think? Is there anything I've missed?
Thanks,
- Chris.
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 23:32 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
What do people here think? Is there anything I've missed?
Only the first several hundred times this has been brought up. :/
I suggest that you submit a patch for review to the yum maintainers, and see what they say. You may have better luck structuring this as a plugin.
~spot
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 00:00 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 23:32 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
What do people here think? Is there anything I've missed?
Only the first several hundred times this has been brought up. :/
I suggest that you submit a patch for review to the yum maintainers, and see what they say. You may have better luck structuring this as a plugin.
it's like 3 lines to make it that way.
-sv
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 23:32 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi,
[Looks like this has been discussed previously, though perhaps not here. Sorry if it's annoying to have it brought up again.]
I'd like to make "yum install" case-insensitive (for occasions where there is only one useful interpretation of case), so that I can do e.g. "yum install wxgtk" without first doing "yum search wxgtk" and finding that the required case is "yum install wxGTK".
This won't work with UTF-8 unless you want to continuously update your code to all the scripts of the world. FESCO explicitely authorized UTF-8 in Provides, and it'll probably spread further mid-term.
If you want to fix this use case properly (as in, solid technical solution) you need to change the guidelines for mandatory package name lowercasing (as some other distros are already sane enough to do).
Last time this was discussed in FPC/FESCO mandatory lowercasing was rejected. But you can try again.
What do people here think? Is there anything I've missed?
You're workarounding bad naming guidelines with a brittle solution. Don't workaround the guidelines, have them fixed.
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