Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (195 mails)

[Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-05-30 18:20:48 +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> On 05/30/2011 04:54 PM, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> > Sometimes we have to break this for characters that can't be part of RPM 
> > names 
> > (like the dot for older distros). In this case, we may want to replace them 
> > with "_".
>
> Actually this one has nothing to do with RPM, but because the autobuild
> team does not want to allow dots in package names for undisclosed reasons.

let me emphasize the important part: (like the dot for older distros)

osc ls openSUSE:Factory nginx-1.0

ymmv

> > Along these lines, it would be great to also provide the upstream name like 
> > Perl packages do nowadays:
> >
> > Provides: python($UPSTREAM_GEM_NAME)
>
> This should work once we enable python/ruby upstream RPM generators. (I
> think this is done now that 4.9.0 is in ...)

how would rpm have a notion of what is a gem atm?
they might have stuff for ruby-abi(1.8) or so, because you can parse
that out of the path. but for the gems/python/perl package naming, i am
not sure. atleast for ruby it is easy to be added now with rpm 4.9.

    darix

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