[yocto] PN is uppercase

[Tim Orling]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 4:55 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 5/21/19 12:50 AM, Ralf Spiwoks wrote:
> > Hi Ross,
> >
> > Thanks for your email. I am realising that I have not replied to your
> > email earlier. Sorry. I guess it was partly because your answer put
> > me slightly off. On the one hand, I thought that as a general approach,
> > Linux was case sensitive, unlike its big rival Windows, and I was not
> > aware  of package managers which would explicitly forbid uppercase
> > package names. I find the approach of allowing only lowercase package
> > names quite limiting, and frankly a drawback for using Yocto
> >
> > On the other hand I have a few tens of packages to maintain, which
> > have uppercase letters in the package names and which did work with
> > Yocto in previous versions. So, because of a new convention we would
> > have to rework some of the packages or ignore the warning messages.
> > And until we find the effort for reworking those package recipes we
> > will stay with the latter option.
>
> The package name rules are not new, they have been with OE/YP forever
> so it should have failed always. Similar to debian see
>
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#list-of-fields
>

We had to pick a convention. Debian is well documented, conservative and
well thought out. My first contributions to OpenEmbedded many years ago
didn’t follow Debian naming, were rejected on V1 and I embarked on a new
learning curve. I’ve embraced it and never looked back.


> >
> > Thanks for your patience and your explanations. Cheers,
> >
> > Ralf.
> >
> > On 4/2/19 1:54 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> >> 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
> >>
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