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Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Feb 23 17:07:54 UTC 2005


W. Michael Petullo wrote:
>>I'm just now writing the naming standards for rpm, and there are already
>>two "do not do XXX" items in your package. (Not your fault, I can't
>>write these standards fast enough to keep up with new packages)
>>
>>- Don't use underscores in the rpm name. Use - as a delimiter.
> 
> 
> pam_ccreds-1-4.ppc.rpm
> pam_ccreds-1-4.ppc64.rpm
> pam_krb5-2.1.2-1.ppc.rpm
> pam_krb5-2.1.2-1.ppc64.rpm
> pam_passwdqc-0.7.5-2.ppc.rpm
> pam_passwdqc-0.7.5-2.ppc64.rpm
> pam_smb-1.1.7-5.ppc.rpm
> pam_smb-1.1.7-5.ppc64.rpm
> 
> Will these core packages be renamed?  This convention has been used by Red
> Hat's PAM module packages for as long as I can remember.  There are also
> many more examples of the '_' character in Fedora Core.

Most(some?) of these are simply following the upstream package name 
(which is OK, IMO).

-- Rex




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