[Freeipa-users] Rename or not to rename (packages only)? freeipa-server -> ipa-server?

Alexander Bokovoy abokovoy at redhat.com
Fri Jul 17 08:57:44 UTC 2015


On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Petr Spacek wrote:
>Hello users and developers,
>
>I wonder what do you think about naming inconsistency in FreeIPA packages.
>
>Packages in Fedora are prefixed with freeipa-* but in RHEL (and derivatives)
>the packages are named as ipa-*. Given that command line interface is in all
>cases 'ipa', it seems like a inconsistency.
>
>Are there any reasons not to rename freeipa-* *packages* to ipa-*?
>
>Naturally name of project would still be FreeIPA :-)
>
>This rename would remove the inconsistency which drives me crazy when I need
>to script something universally for RHEL and Fedora.
Not again. ;)
It was 'ipa' package in Fedora first few years and got renamed to
freeipa.
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy




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