On Saturday 16 July 2005 15:36, Paweł Sakowski wrote: > glen committed: > > Naming files in SOURCES. > > few unexplained conventions (if smb knows, plz explain the reasons): > > - NAME-foo.patch - patches > > - NAME.cron - cron fragments which go to /etc/cron.d dir > > - NAME.logrotate - logrotate config whichgoes to /etc/logrotate.d > > - NAME.sysconfig - application cofing which goes to /etc/sysconfig > > - NAME.init - initscript which goes to /etc/rc.d/init.d > > The reasons, off the top of my head: > - to decrease entropy (it's good to have _a_ policy, this one is just > as good as any other) > - for grouping files in SOURCES (as in `rm SOURCES/galeon*` or visual > inspection of `ls`) > - to avoid filename conflicts between packages by prefixing (half the > specs could want to use the name ac_am-fix.patch) > - to easily determine visually which package a given source belongs to > (by the filename prefix) i was more thinking why NAME.cron not NAME-cron.
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