[OE-core] could OE maybe point out when a recipe has upper case letters in it?

[André Draszik]

On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 08:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   in a fit of silliness, i created some packagegroup recipes and,
> without thinking, had the string "OE" as part of the recipe file name,
> and was baffled when i kept getting errors that trying to add that
> packagegroup to my image was failing due to an "empty" package.
> 
>   it was doubly mystifying since i had been using wind river linux
> where the packagegroup names contained the string "WRL" and that
> worked just fine. changing the "OE" to "oe" appears to have solved the
> problem.
> 
>   thoughts? why "WRL" worked with wind river linux, and "OE" failed
> with a poky build? i don't plan on making that mistake again.

I think this depends on the package format used - AFAIR rpm allows capital
letters in package names, whereas ipk and deb don't.

Cheers,
A.