Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Walser wrote: >> Olivier Thauvin wrote: >> >>>[Contrib-RPM] >>>Name : kernel-2.6 Relocations: (not relocateable) >>>Version : 2.6.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft >>>Release : 0.test2.2mdk Build Date: Wed Aug 6 > 00:48:09 2003 >> >> >> I can't believe RPM even let you do that. hyphens are *not* supposed > to be in RPM Names. > > They can be in names (see the normal kernel packages), they just can't > be in version numbers (possibly release numbers too). > > Buchan
Apparently they can now, but they used to be totally illegal, and for good reason. It makes it near impossible to parse the filename. By policy the RPM name here should be kernel2.6
