On Tuesday 27 November 2007 18:31:28 Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:51 +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote: > > Please no. Do not use ":" in filenames. It will prevent a simple backup > > to a FAT filesystem. > > I was going to argue that this is about as bogus argument as saying that > we should limit rpm filenames to 8.3. 8.3 is a pre-FAT32 limitation. Since Windows XP, everybody uses FAT32 instead of the old FAT (even Windows 95 can read and write to FAT32). > What's the status of ':' support in windows? Is it possible to use those > characters on NTFS? NTFS allows the use of ":" (only the null character and "/" is disallowed. However, the Win32 API does not permit the use of ":". > The file name if a package is not important, unless > you let rpm satisfy dependencies, does it? What happens when you attempt > to download a file with a colon in name in Windows -- does it replace it > with some other character? I do not know. -- Laurent Rineau http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
