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

[Andreas Oberritter]

On 05/20/2011 05:01 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> 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.

http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/2255/ should solve the problem. I
was waiting for a second ack.

Khem, if this fixes the problem for you, please send an ack or push this
patch.

Regards,
Andreas