Fedora Users — Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:40, Mike Williams <dmikewilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 08:17:34 -0200
>> Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Does Red Hat allow two packages with the same name, but different
>> > capitalization?. I rest my case.
>>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Can you prove there are none ?
>>
>
> There are two in the f13 repos:
>
> php-pear-Auth-radius.noarch
> php-pear-Auth-RADIUS.noarch
>
> Mike
>

Thanks, Mike. I cannot confirm that on the only Red-hat based machine
I have available at the moment, CentOS 5.5. Can you check if those are
actually the same package?

They are definitely different.

-rw-r--r--. 1 mike mike 12932 Feb 26 2010 php-pear-Auth-RADIUS-1.0.6-4.fc12.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 mike mike 6344 Feb 26 2010 php-pear-Auth-radius-1.6.1-10.fc12.noarch.rpm

After downloading them, I realized that yum info would provide more information and would have been easier.

Note that yum info is case insensitive ;-)

Personally I like the fact that the info command is case insensitive and the install command demands the exact name. The install command has the potential to cause major problems. I prefer that it does exactly what I tell it and complains if I don't get it right.

yum info php-pear-Auth-radius.noarch

Available Packages
Name        : php-pear-Auth-RADIUS
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 1.0.6
Release     : 4.fc12
Size        : 13 k
Repo        : fedora
Summary     : Wrapper Classes for the RADIUS PECL
URL         : http://pear.php.net/package/Auth_RADIUS
License     : BSD
Description : Wrapper Classes for the RADIUS PECL.

Name        : php-pear-Auth-radius
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 1.6.1
Release     : 10.fc12
Size        : 6.2 k
Repo        : fedora
Summary     : RADIUS support for php-pear-Auth
URL         : http://pear.php.net/package/Auth
License     : PHP
Description : This package adds a RADIUS container for the PHP Auth system.

Cheers,

Mike

-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines