[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] opkg-utils: Allow uppercase lettlers in package names
Koen Kooi
koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Fri May 20 15:06:46 UTC 2011
Op 20 mei 2011, om 17:01 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:
> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 07:45 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I just checked the code and it certainly looks like it should be doing
> that:
>
> # Remaining package name validity fixes
> return s.lower().replace('_', '-').replace('@', '+').replace(',', '+').replace('/', '-')
>
> So if that isn't working for you then I think it needs a bit of
> debugging.
Does that run on PV or PN? I think Khem has weird things in PV
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