From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] opkg-utils: Allow uppercase lettlers in package names
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 07:45:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305873952.18415.249.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <836208067c345a911ddb3a266ac398b435054798.1305839225.git.raj.khem@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:09 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> Some packages have uppercase letters in their names e.g.
> efikamx kernel. We allow uppercase character with
> uppercase-letters.patch
This is not a good idea. Uppercase characters have never been permitted
in .deb/.ipk.
Isn't legitimize_package_name() crunching them to lower case for you?
If not then I think it should be made to do that.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 21:09 [PATCH 0/2] Let opkg-build allow uppercase letters Khem Raj
2011-05-19 21:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] opkg: Synchronise with OE Khem Raj
2011-05-19 22:10 ` Richard Purdie
2011-05-19 21:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] opkg-utils: Allow uppercase lettlers in package names Khem Raj
2011-05-20 5:22 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2011-05-20 6:45 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2011-05-20 15:01 ` Phil Blundell
2011-05-20 15:06 ` Koen Kooi
2011-05-20 16:05 ` Andreas Oberritter
2011-05-20 16:31 ` Richard Purdie
2011-05-20 18:35 ` Khem Raj
2011-05-21 6:43 ` Koen Kooi
2011-05-19 22:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] Let opkg-build allow uppercase letters Richard Purdie
2011-05-19 23:24 ` Khem Raj
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