[yocto] Upper-case letters in package names OK?

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Mon Nov 3 07:07:07 PST 2014


On Monday 03 November 2014 14:40:42 Vuille, Martin wrote:
> I have a package named "foo-Bar" built by a recipe "foo-Bar_1.0.0.bb".
>
> Just noticed in Toaster that for that package it is reporting the package
> name as "foo-" instead of "foo-Bar".
> 
> Is that a bug in Toaster or a restriction on package names?

Assuming it's foo-Bar and not foo_Bar then it is definitely a bug somewhere. 
However some package managers still don't like uppercase in package names and 
therefore we tend not to use them.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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