Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 16:51:26 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>>
>> Kind of late in the game to ask for that without providing a means to 
>> keep working as the change is implemented by each packager separately, 
>> isn't it?  The existing dependencies aren't going to all be fixed on 
>> the same day.
> 
> The method was already provided earlier in this thread. Just add a 
> additional provides with all lowercase in between the transition period.

And the advantage of distributing all this work and making it be done in 
a certain order over just forcing case insensitivity would be?

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   Les Mikesell
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