On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 12:32 -0600, Jima wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > > Jima, are we talking about readability? Well, then we should exchange > > names like orange-devel-0.3-5.cvs20051118.fc8.x86_64.rpm for "Orange > > Development Package" and so on. Can you see how nice would they look on > > a desktop? ;) > > I wasn't dismissing your suggestion out of hand. (Sorry, I should have > been clearer.) I'd advocate for a different separator if possible, though > (_ maybe?). - is a bit heavily used, appearing in the %name (as many as 5 > times!), and as a separator between %name, %version, and %release. > Occasionally, with numbers in %name, it can take a moment to tell where > %name ends and %version begins. :-) Yah - you have to read backward from left to right to parse an rpm filename into the subcomponents. here are the steps: - get rid of .rpm - read backward until a '.' - that's the arch - read backward until the next '-' - that's the release - read backward until the next '-' - that's the version - read backward until you hit a ':' (if there is one) - that's the name - read backward until the beginning of the string - that's the epoch That let's you parse a filename like: epoch:name-ver-rel.arch.rpm and it handles -'s in names if you wanted name-epoch:ver-rel.arch.rpm you'd just have to make sure that : is banished from ver and rel and always included. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
