[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] opkg-utils: Allow uppercase lettlers in package names

Phil Blundell pb at pbcl.net
Fri May 20 06:45:52 UTC 2011


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.






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