[packages/GLM] - initial revision - package nome in upper case b/c of conflict with existing package

Jan Rękorajski baggins at pld-linux.org
Thu Aug 1 07:57:24 CEST 2013


On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> On 15.07.2013 13:43, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > On 15.07.2013 13:18, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> >> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> >>
> >>> >On 14.07.2013 17:37, baggins wrote:
> >>>> > >commit 9352f43c75a59e3a2e82e223b3ca9e9b7f5b4499
> >>>> > >Author: Jan Rękorajski<baggins at pld-linux.org>
> >>>> > >Date:   Sun Jul 14 16:36:26 2013 +0200
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > >      - initial revision
> >>>> > >      - package nome in upper case b/c of conflict with existing 
> >>>> package
> >>>> > >
> >>> >
> >>> >this breaks github git mirror
> >> Suggested fix?
> > use different name for package :)
> OpenGL-GLM ?

Feel free to rename and update deps accordingly if you really must.

> 
> >
> > i also suggest maybe git initial push should check for such conflicts, 
> > i.e that there isn't already package what differs only by case
> >
> >>
> >>> >and this breaks mirroring pld on case insensitive filesystem (vfat, 
> >>> hfs+)
> >> Really? I bet this is the least problem with those filesystems.
> > with different packages it's probably not that visible,
> > i noticed it first with poppler-qt vs poppler-Qt which came from same 
> > package, meaning the version/release matched too.
> >> Don't mirror unix fs on something that does not follow its semantics.
> > when transferring rpm's to somewhere offline, using unix fs is not 
> > always possible!
> >
> > besides, there are case insensitive filesystems which are case also 
> > preserving filesystems, so it works most of the time (my $HOME is hfs+ 
> > and running MATE 1.6 desktop just fine)
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> glen
> 
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