[yocto] PN is uppercase

[Burton, Ross]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 12:36, Ralf Spiwoks <spiwoks at cern.ch> wrote:
> TWO questions:
>
> 1) Are those two issues related?

Probably not, unless you're trying to use a mixed-case override.

> 2) What is the logic behind allowing only lower case package names? This is to me
>     a serious restriction on the use of Yocto.

Two reasons: some package managers forbid packages with uppercase
names; and for performance reasons overrides are lowercase and as
package names are often embedded in overrides this implies that
package names need to be lowercase.

What's the problem with using lowercase names?

Ross