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

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Wed Jul 31 13:48:41 CEST 2013


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 ?

>
> 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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