On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:26, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> By virtue of that link, we have reduced the problem to simply ASCII >> uppercase and ASCII lowercase character case insensitivity for >> installing packages via Yum. There is no need to generalise the issue >> to filenames, other operating systems, non-ASCII languages, or >> anything else. > > Fedora naming guidelines only apply to Fedora, so the answer is you > haven't because of third party repositories. In fact you actually hit > some problems with this and have to recompile the Fedora RPM packages and > tweak them a bit sometimes because they otherwise blow up on what every > other distro considers a valid RPM version character of '~' > The ~ character is fine, it would not be affected by case insensitivity. Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the package name, from any repo. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
