Package names and capitalization. Why?

Naoki naoki at valuecommerce.com
Tue Aug 9 02:41:17 UTC 2005


Hi y'all,

Is there any (good) reason for having uppercase characters in RPM file
names?  If not, how about a policy against it?

As a pretty basic example why it wouldn't seem to be a "good thing" we
have packages called Gconf* and *gconf* which just makes it that little
bit more annoying to deal with.

Here is the full list of packages with uppercase chars from the devel
tree..

4Suite-1.0-9.b1.i386.rpm
Canna-3.7p3-13.i386.rpm
Canna-devel-3.7p3-13.i386.rpm
Canna-libs-3.7p3-13.i386.rpm
ElectricFence-2.2.2-20.i386.rpm
GConf-1.0.9-17.i386.rpm
GConf-devel-1.0.9-17.i386.rpm
GConf2-2.11.90-1.i386.rpm
GConf2-devel-2.11.90-1.i386.rpm
GFS-6.1.0-3.i386.rpm
GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601...>
GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601...>
GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.11.8-20050..>
GFS-kernel-xen0-2.6.11.8-2005..>
GFS-kernel-xenU-2.6.11.8-2005..>
GFS-kernheaders-2.6.11.8-2005..>
GFS-kernheaders-2.6.11.8-2005..>
Guppi-0.40.3-23.i386.rpm
Guppi-devel-0.40.3-23.i386.rpm
HelixPlayer-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-6.2.2.0-4.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-c++-6.2.2.0-4.i38..>
ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.2.2.0..>
ImageMagick-devel-6.2.2.0-4.i..>
ImageMagick-perl-6.2.2.0-4.i3..>
MAKEDEV-3.19-4.i386.rpm
MyODBC-2.50.39-24.i386.rpm
MySQL-python-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm
NetworkManager-0.4-34.cvs2005..>
NetworkManager-devel-0.4-34.c..>
NetworkManager-glib-0.4-34.cv..>
NetworkManager-gnome-0.4-34.c..>
ORBit-0.5.17-15.i386.rpm
ORBit-devel-0.5.17-15.i386.rpm
ORBit2-2.12.2-1.i386.rpm
ORBit2-devel-2.12.2-1.i386.rpm
OpenIPMI-1.4.14-5.i386.rpm
OpenIPMI-devel-1.4.14-5.i386.rpm
OpenIPMI-libs-1.4.14-5.i386.rpm
OpenIPMI-tools-1.4.14-5.i386.rpm
PyQt-3.14.1-1.i386.rpm
PyQt-devel-3.14.1-1.i386.rpm
PyQt-examples-3.14.1-1.i386.rpm
PyXML-0.8.4-3.i386.rpm
Pyrex-0.9.3-1.noarch.rpm
SDL-1.2.8-3.2.i386.rpm
SDL-devel-1.2.8-3.2.i386.rpm
SysVinit-2.85-40.i386.rpm
Xaw3d-1.5E-4.i386.rpm
Xaw3d-devel-1.5E-4.i386.rpm

Xaw3d is great and all but does it deserve a capital letter over
xorg-x11 ?





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