On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: > Hi. > Are there problems with '+' in package names ? > When we introduced RPM 4.2.1 in OpenPKG 2.0 we encountered occasional strange behavior where RPM allowed two packages whose name-version-release combination contained a '+' could coexist given they share the same prefix before the '+' character. A later version of a package did not replace its predecessor as expected but was added. We never digged deeper into the issue to find out whether it is a bug or a "package addition" feature. We decided to stay away from it for new packages by tightening speclint [1] and removing this character from some existing packages [2]. Along with this issue we learned about the interesting --allmatches [3] option which makes RPM erase all packages matching all packages sharing a common prefix.
[1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=13473 [2] http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=15203 (example) [3] http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=14602 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cable & Wireless ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
